This 70 foot tall painted steel sculpture stands in front of the new Tampa Bay Arena in Florida. The arena not only serves as home to the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team, but also is the site of many public events and concerts. People can walk through the lightning to get in and out of the arena.

During one of my early visits to the Tampa site, and before my ideas for the sculpture had jelled, I noticed flashes of light in the early evening sky. I asked my host, who was driving us at the time, what this was about, since it was not a stormy evening, and the sky seemed quite clear. It was explained to me that the city of Tampa has more lightning than any other city in the United States. Therefore, I finally decided on this lightning motif - not so much to honor the hockey team, which is titled Tampa Bay Lightning - but more importantly, to recognize this lightning phenomena in Tampa. In order to symbolically and archetypally connect the beginnings of life to these three lightning bolts, I chose to place a nine foot tall figure on the ground at the center of this sculpture. This figure was actually an early version of one of my male / female silhouettes (if you viewed the figure from one direction you see a female, and if you viewed the figure from another direction you see a male). Actually, I was asked to place a silhouette of a hockey player in this location, but of course, I gracefully had to refuse. The sculpture is referring to a much larger idea and the hockey team, like many professional sports teams, could easily move to another city in ten years, while the arena and the sculpture live on. In fact, this sculpture, lightning, refers back to the beginning of time and how the earth and life on it was most likely formed.