The picture I used for reference for this piece was an old public domain drawing of elephants at a circus. As I developed the piece, it seemed to make sense that the elephants weren't blatantly different sizes, and the sea-saw they balanced on needed to be a delicate sort of perch. I wanted to have them on display, but not with too much pageantry. The circus tent became a backdrop of simplified Eye shapes, a subtle audience to the reckoning of things.
It was important to me that the idea of two drastically different perspectives, two completely different experiences, could exist in a similar space, and still have kindness in their eyes. Maybe Ganesha doesn't so much remove the obstacles between two people, instead perhaps he just aids in the acceptance of them.
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