After an exhausting procurement process, I was excited to meet my one-ton chunk of stone that had traveled to Seattle from the marble mines of Carrara, Italy. My first intuitive impression evoked a sense of compassion. But who represented the relationship within the emotion? Lovers? Friends? Family? At that point I did not know.

But as the process unfolded, the figures eventually revealed themselves. To carve each figure, I had to think of the two as one. This two-as-one union took time and patience, just as it does in human relationships. In the end, what I saw reflected in the sculpture was the compassion that exists between the adult and the child within each of us.