Plaster 86cms h., bronze edition of 8: Privately commissioned, both figures represent the same person, the upper one being the inner being. The idea for the sculpture is based on the Ouroboros, the symbol of a snake swallowing its own tail representing the eternal cycle of disintegration and re-integration. Also involved is a medieval christian concept that the soul issues from the mouth at death. A synthesis of these two ideas are used to express in the sculpture the cycle of man's existence. A person's future is determined by the state of the inner being as well as what they projects from their mind; 'whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap'. The shape of the sculpture alludes to the scythe.