The 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Building in New York, and the accompanying image of the aircraft crashing into the building made me feel that the works that I had created thus far, personal and with modest motivation, were deeply limited. This series was born of struggles and a desire to portray light and whiteness amid despair and spiritual death; to answer the question: In a world without God, what is the modern deity that people still want to believe in?