For this sculpture and in particular, this left sided image I intentionally and deliberately aimed to show the viewer that to be a father of any child in America in 1999 or any year for that matter and especially of a son is a Herculan and monumental role and achievement to fullfill. I titled this sculpture, the only sculpture I had accepted in a juried art show at The Mother of God Community Center in Gaithersburg, MD and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Georgetown, Washington, DC both in the early 2000's, "Father and Child" and "Joseph and Christ Child" only in parentheses because here in America raising a son as I witnessed teaching at a high school in Washington, DC in the late 1990's, especially an absolutely annoying ADHD(Attention-Deficit-Hyper-Disorder) child is almost but not quite as difficult, in my opinion, as Joseph having to raise the Christ-Child in Bethlehem while being very poor and being hunted by baby-son-killer Herod. Being a father of an ADHD son is obviously very hard and heavy and so I therefore dug deep into this cherry-tree carved wood log to show my viewing audience this very expressively and convincingly both by mallot and chisel and pencil.