All my paintings with staircases or steps refer to the sensation of becoming lost and needing to find one’s way. Note that these staircases sometimes start out of nowhere and/or have no end…

More specifically, the staircase symbolize the predicaments humans create for themselves. People then have to somehow find a solution to resolve the problem that they have created, even when it looks impossible to do so.

The bird does not need a staircase, however, and moves only by instinct. The bird can fly and does not think these staircases are a problem, but humans do because that is their nature!