Throughout history artists have been attempting to interpret and comment on the environment around them by creating symbols and metaphor. Symbols reveal deeper aspects of what it means to be human that are inaccessible to empirical thinking.*ln other words, symbols transform physical reality into a modality of the spirit, disclose structures of the real and point to the inner workings of human existence that are hidden from view. The ability to access the depths of the psyche creates the freedom to understand the multiplicity and paradox of everything alive. This opening to our inner world gives us the freedom to transcend the limitations of our unique situation and arrive at an understanding of the other, the universal and the cosmological significance of all human endeavors....