48x60 Oil on panel ©2003 Parallel Universe I used the story of William Tell to tell my father’s story. Each figure represents my father in different phases of his life. His mother’s death when he was 12 is represented by the child with the hawk on his head, (the hawk representing his mother). The figure with the arrow represents him as a young man, principled and honest like William Tell, but harnassed with a lifetime of trying to free himself from the pain of his loss. It is an impossible feat as the hawk can fly away from the arrow, only to return again. The central figure embodies how he looked to me throughout my life. When focusing on him as this older adult, I then become the child against the tree and, my brother becomes the young man. We felt his pain but we could not change the story.