Pausing to Reflect. Maybe it could also be called 'midlife crisis', he has been walking the spiraling life path long enough that the early years are far behind, and he wonders how far up ahead the road continues. What he sees in the mirror is not clear to us. Is he going to take this opportunity to change anything in his life? Does he even have the power to change? Since this is a picture of a timeline, to me the bricks in the path each represent a single heartbeat. Somehow the whole structure reminds me of a medical illustrations of cell structure. The long ramp looks like the one Sisyphys worked on, bringing thoughts of about repetition, futility and lonliness. But there is also hope here that the journey has, like most, a reason for it's undertaking. Hope of some kind of payoff at the other end.