The card image (for the invitation to the show) is of the Tower of Silence, a Zoroastrian burial chamber in Iran. The Zoroastrians are one of the oldest religions on earth, predating Judaism, and still exists in small numbers. The religion is credited as introducing monotheism to the west, as well as the concept of duality, good and evil, existing in the same place at the same time. Zoroastrian burial consists of chopping the body into parts, placing it with in the open plateau top and letting carrion birds and the sun decompose the body. The image for the card has been altered to increase associations with sci-fi/ fantasy landscapes.

Baldeaglegriffonvulture, is a to-scale statue of a composite bird with a bald eagle's head and claws and a griffon vulture's body. The bird is layed in gold and stands on a rock face that emerges from of the wall and is painted a muted greenish color. The griffon vulture is the dominant carrion bird in Iran. It is also a modern day descendant of the vultures that existed in ancient Egypt that were used in iconography of their deities. Specifically, the Nekhbet goddess of Upper Egypt is famously represented on the crowns of the pharaohs by a vulture's head. The association of the vulture with empirical opulence lead to the choice of the bald eagle, the American dominant carrion bird, as the symbol for American power.

Martian Ruin is made in a pseudo-Martian soil and is roughly 16" squared. It is made to look like a millennium-old statue of a human male head, based on images of the head of St. John the Baptist. It is placed on a pedestal under the gaze of the bird statue. The head of John the Baptist is a referent to the Mandeans, they are the only Gnostic sect which still exist today in Iran. The Mandeans placed John the Baptist in the role of Christ. The Gnostics existed during and lived near the formations of Christianity and Islam. They believed that a radical dualism existing between God and the world, that this world was the creation of a lowly demi-urge, who hopes to keep us trapped on this planet asleep to the true knowledge of the universe. "The soul slumbers in matter."

The chain of associations to this point are; the card image of Zoroastrian burial place, the carrion bird, and the severed body part.

Sophia Descending is a scale model of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. It is mounted on the ceiling and on it's surface is painted the constellation Orion. To the Gnostics the entity Sophia represented divine wisdom. The fall of wisdom is one of the great metaphors in gnosticism of the fall from light into the darkness of this world. The Hagia Sophia is a symbol of the eastern reach during the Hellenistic era of Christianity. The Hellenistic period the great meeting of the east and west existed for a 1000 years until its conquest by Islam. The Hagia Sophia is now a mosque.

Burial Army is comprised of 14" tall figurines standing in rows, much like the Egyptian burial armies. They are painted to look like a dark bronze patina and are place below and to the side of Sophia Desending. Each one is individual and is taken from a character in a movie. Whether from horror, sci-fi or plain drama, the characters chosen are representations of near eastern or desert peoples. The association the movies try to trigger are of the "Orient" as an alien culture. This is something that developed in English and French literature during their attempts at empire during the 19th century. Sci-fi has often used the orient/alien metaphor, most notably in the Dune series. The fantasy of the planet Mars speculates heavily in this metaphor, as a desert planet, perhaps with an ancient culture of its own.

The Ascetic is a large wall drawing representing an ascetic's cave. It is rendered on the wall behind the Burial Army. St. Antony was the first great ascetic; rejecting the corruption of the material world, he lived on the most minimal substances in a cave in Upper Egypt. The Gnostics were often split over how to act over the falsity the material world. Like the ascetic, some would feel obligated to avoid further contamination by the world and therefore would try to reduce contact with it to a minimum. Operating from the same foundation but with the opposite outcome is the libertine. The libertine looks at the material world as a place of no consequence, giving them absolute freedom to defile. The libertine is a perfect nihilist.

The Libertine is on the wall opposite The Ascetic. It is a wall mounted polygon that is extrapolated from the internal angles of a pentagon which fold outward. The resulting object looks something like a aperture or portal. As a referent of Bladen, Tony Smith, or Robert Smithson , the libertine's character traits goes along a parallel coarse with minimalistic nihilism. The aperture of the cave and the polygon are aligned opening the gallery space as a void.