In my pursuit of a consistent statement with the photograph above, which I believe to be one of the most powerful images I have ever photographed, I made 15 black and white images of groups of twigs that I grabbed from a pile that was not the aforementioned pile but a different pile of smaller twigs. These photographs are shown below.

These twig photographs mean to me an embodiment of line and shadow. They are configured in the natural world as I, with my hand and imagination, would configure lines on paper with a marking device.

A demonstration of my devotion to natural statements is the course my work is now taking, to manifest itself in a combination of drawing and photography and furthermore, mixed media.