Much of my recent life has been a striving for clarity. Perhaps, in my case, it is time for a little mystery.

I myself have a problem telling Q from A in this piece. And here again some kind of story can be woven from such - the denouement depending upon the call of clarity or mystery.

A spot of Q and A does sound a little like some kind of Yorkshire pudding. The dessert that terminated your ruminations was likely far more digestible than the topic under consideration.

I like your ideas and would likely appropriate them shamelessly were they not here so in view. Red and black are indeed two colors that seem right for these.

And I agree that the concepts around Q and A , and attendant physicalities can remind one a little of the relationships found between geometry and the phenomena of music.

Jer and I were talking over dinner and we decided that you needed to do 27 of these sculptures. We even had Notions: Q’s in one corner of the ring; A’s in the other. Q’s lined up before prostrate A’s (or the other way around). Thin Q’s, fat A’s and vice-versa. Red q’s, black A, ranging in circles and ovals and squares and rectangles. Q’s climbing one of your ladders while the A’s cling to the sides, being knocked off. Q’s as the trunk of the tree, A’s being the spindly branches.

I started to riff on the shapes and meanings therein, but then our pudding came and we abandoned Q&A for food.

Your assemblage of blocks makes me a little nervous — I’m claustrophobic and if this is where Q&As get us, let me out! If that is your intent, then you’ve achieved it — that is, that Q & A as currently practiced in contemporary culture goes nowhere and makes nothing but a pile of indecipherabilities that seem to have meaning.

I too like the color, but if you were working toward clarity, then thinner might help. The question of how the light shines to photograph the piece makes me smile a bit, since it too fits with the strange ways that comments (Q&A) get interpreted and reinterpreted in contemporary media.

I always like your sculptures; they make me question and seldom provide answers. As enigmas, they work. I suspect the question is, what do you want to work on your viewer — enigma or some clarity.

At home, I access virtual world solely on the internet. Black-clad young moms were seen in real life.

Maybe the entire schtick is too thick. That is a point to ponder in this exercise, that the letters are helter and skelter, and such a quality does not contribute to the object. I think that I may forgo the self linkage next time around.

Sounds like you’ve been watching the Addams Family on tv.