I don't really like posting in these forums, but hey.....what the hell!.
These are mostly very large oil paintings, photo collages that have been painted on or in the case of the last image, an old acrylic one from 2000. Almost non of these are photographed perfectly, and could do with a some fiddling with to be more representative of the originals. The newer ones explore much more of an internal sort of theme, and were done in the last year or so. There are also a few pf photos, non of which involve any Photoshop trickery other than some cropping and level adjusting.. . .if you are interested enough check out some others on my horrible myspace page.
I'm sure you could get a bucket full of metaphors out of this but the image alone is just amazing. The dark to light scale is once again powerful here.