Tone, flavor, a sense of place. If anything, these images recognize that the soul looks out of the eyes unmasked and vulnerable. They show us respectful, if dignified people who are locked into a world in which life happens at all times in a context we do not understand and with actions that often go unexplained. Significantly, it's a world which has little to do with our inadequate ideas of time and death, or the purpose of being.
