A comment on the social anxieties of today's youth

Clearly the artists intention from the outset was to leave the beholder caught in thought about this piece's true meaning, particularly as the two meanings to be infered from it are contradictory.

Did the artist intend to turn 'lane' into 'plane' to portray their hopes and aspirations that their talent and character will help them to soar like an aeroplane away from the drudgery of Walsall Wood and the mundanity of life as a teenager in 2011? Is the intention to convey to all observers that will a little optimism we can all change our outlook on life and work towards what we want to do, and not towards what we have to do? That for all of us out there is a plane mistaken for a star?

Conversely, it could well be that this artist's intent was to force upon all who witness this piece the truly crushing reality of modern life and its tendency to slowly grind down your soul and outlook, chipping away each piece of happiness and sanity that youthful exuberance breeds but which ultimately goes unfulfilled, much like a wood plane slowly planing a surface to a flat featureless piece of wood? Is it that the artist has in fact resigned themself to the fact that they will never achieve their hopes and aspirations and has already submitted themself to the plane of life and will without resistance succumb to the gradual erosion of their soul?