There was a large sycamore tree in Tennessee. My youngest son, Max, wanted to climb it with his cousins. I lifted him up to a low-hanging branch and told him to hold on. As he held on, I turned to grab my camera and Max panicked. Seeing him panic, I moved quickly to capture this singular moment. His feet were only a foot off the ground, but for him it was terrifying. I wanted to depict this father-and-son experience in bas-relief, carved into a panel of white pine. I added a real tree branch and a piece of found painted wood as the ground. I wanted to express the moment of panic Max experienced – the force of a boy’s inexperienced imagination and the foolishness of the dad he trusted. I added the cat to accentuate the lack of real danger. My self-image is a composite.