My desire to make figurative sculpture in stone was growing, but in 1979 I was still not quite ready for large full figure sculpture, even after a lot of figurative sketching and studying. Sculpting a head, though, felt less daunting. I made the head of Prometheus chained to the stone, but put the chain around his neck, and the claws of the hawk going toward his eyes instead of his liver. It was a kind of re-organizing of that myth to represent the artist: I was becoming more of aware of how often artists, following one’s own visions, have been punished by misunderstanding.