"The visual pun in the middle piece is eye/I, but I also hearken
back to a crazy story in a Chinese anthology about not being afraid of
ghosts in which someone spent the night in a haunted house and shot the
resident "ghost" with a crossbow. He was surprised to find that the
ghost was actually a lump of flesh with dozens of eyes staring out of
it. This did not keep him from cooking the thing and eating it on the
spot. The story ends by telling us that the ghost was delicious! I
also allude to a great illumination by Hildegard von Bingen titled "The
Quickening of the Child in the Womb." Finally, the picture accurately
reproduces a series of nightmares I had shortly after 9/11 in which
flying triangles filled with eyes figured prominently."
