"This piece represents the spirit, transcending and breaking the chains of
its bonds with the material world. The genie (spirit) has been shut away in
its vessel (the earth), but is now breaking free. As it escapes, it shatters
the cherished structures and forms (religion, money, human-centered ideals)
that have made up our lives, but which have become too limiting. The
smoke he trails, made up of DNA strands (the serpent of life twining around
the tree) is the force of evolution that invites us to change and become
what we truly are meant to be--Spirit Man. The genie is the creative genius
that lives in our "genes" and in our innermost being, a symbol of that
portion of God that dwells within us all."
