The low down on the paintings lower down.

A friend emailed me after she visited my blog and said she found it interesting to read my thoughts as well as see the paintings, so I thought I'd make a little extra effort and write more on what the paintings are about.
The one below called "artist" is somewhat self explanitory. It's a self portrait (omgosh, I'm naked!). The self-protective pose of the figure and the lack of clothing suggests the vulnerability I feel when I create and send my artwork out into the world.
The tip of the paintbrush touches the sun which represents the "divine light", the source of all ceativity.
The bridge symbolizes the connection of the mind(thought) to the hand(expression).
It took a while for me to figure out what the water was about. At the time that I put the water in (initially the figure was buried underground holding up a flower) I was trying to figure out what I believed about Jesus Christ (was he the son of God or just a really good guy?), and I was also struggling with what to do with the foreground after I had put the water in. Suddenly bulrushes popped into my head for the foreground. I looked up bulrushes in my book of symbolism and it said, "Because of it's hardy structure the bulrush is used to symbolize the church as it thrives on the living water of Jesus Christ."
The water in my painting reflects the divine light, as did Jesus Christ, so I guess the water represents him.
The fish and the bird represent two dear friends (and fellow artists) who provided me with a breath of inspiration when I was creatively desolate and artistically lost in a barren and hostile wasteland, called, by equally barren and hostile people, "the real world".

The painting right down the bottom called "terrestrial" had its meaning unfold after it was finished. The three figures represent the different ways people engage with their lives. The large woman in the foreground strides briskly and purposefully, while the suited guy enjoys a frivolous jaunt, and the last figure stands endlessly waiting.
The sun could be rising or setting, both look the same, the only difference being one occurs at the begining and the other at the end of the day. It strikes me that perhaps it is similar with birth and death, that the transitional experiences are the same but one occurs at the beginning of life and the other occurs at the end. So the sunrise/sunset represents birth and death.