Images are often symbols. Images are always clusters of meanings. That's the peculiar way images communicate informations: by a concretion of meanings.
So, when artists create images, or objects, they build a cluster. And an artist doesn't always know all that his artwork carries.
When I sculpted this "Lion carrying a sleeping child on a book", in marble, I had a feeling about these things together - the lion, the book, the sleeping child - but didn't know what the image I was making would communicate.
Of course even now I don't know what a viewer can feel and think, watching that marble thing. But my personal reading now is more clear: the sculpture I did told to me, in time, what I now read in it. The idea I had in mind, before sculpting that lion, is gone, wiped out by the strenght of a real image.
"Lion carrying a sleeping child on a book", marble, 2001
