Structures, a game tug of war?

Charles Caldemeyer’s structures paintings can make you feel down right stupid.  Sure they pull you in with all their interesting symbolic juxtapositions of characters, myths and various cultural artifacts.  The audience can’t help thinking it all means something.  I dare anyone to stand in front of one of his structures and think it's all meaningless. Yet these are not illustrations, there is no predetermined message, no solution to the riddle. They’re a visual tug of war, they push and they pull you, convincing you that someone is about to cave, some little bit of bias will escape, but no one caves and the bias stays hidden.  Instead of picking sides, the artists just created the sides and the audience decides who wins, or if there is a winner at all. Caldemeyer is a mad scientist putting combinations of different cultural elements in a test tube just to see what happens.  If we are lucky the potion never explodes, it just keeps producing little thought bubbles.