A man and a woman are embracing/dancing in the foreground at the base of the carving. Under the woman's right arm is an emerging infant, intended to seem in utero, not fully formed. Above, being raised by the man's right arm is a child. Above the child is this same image, maturing. Of the two figures juxtaposed at the top of the carving, the one on the left combines a lamb and a sphinx; on the right is a playful, laughing lion. As these figures emerged, I reflected that the relation between the generations involves a tension between conformity to the old ways and the courage for new beginnings. The sphinx-like aspect seemed to express the riddle of generation and maturity ("what walks on 4 feet, then 2 feet then 3 feet"). I also felt in these figures the need for reconciliation between the lion and the lamb as the task of human-kind-ness.