We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.
The images for my works are somewhat insignificant to me. It became an exercise of variation. I only see the surface images as doodles in a sketchbook, but it's hard to not see an image and bring some kind of personal association, though there's not a prescribed idea of what you're supposed to see.