I have always placed the figure as the central point of interest and have had several opportunities to use subject as the center of a given public space. In some cases the theme of the project guided my own search for the perfect subject and the resulting piece gave its community a figure central to its own identity. Sam Livingston was Calgary's first citizen and Albert the Great is St. Albert's namesake. Research paid off in these projects to create works that mean more than either subject or design alone could. Hazel began with the desire to remember a prominent citizen but turned my attention to how memory survives, publicly and privately. Parmenide's Son is a little different in that it focuses on an entire era and our notion of time itself rather than a particular person.