I’ve always been interested in religious iconography.  The dramatic, storytelling imagery especially affected me.  Maybe it was because when I was in the second grade, Mrs. Miller would read us a Bible story before lunch if we were good.  Really, really good.  The stories with fire, floods, diseases, and plagues. Just the thing to plant images in a young boy’s mind. I was changed by those stories.  These are some of my personal interpretations.