From the artist:

“The ‘Crazy Arrow’ act was one of male bravado.  The men and boys would stand in a field and fire arrows into the sky.  The object of this was to prove your courage and these men would have to stand still while the arrows reversed direction and came zooming back down to earth.  The hope was that an arrow, yours or someone else’s, wouldn't skewer you in the head and kill you.  It is a form of those youthful and stupid games we called "chicken" when we were kids which included jumping from high places, driving your car recklessly, or stealing something from a store. None of them being really good ideas but nevertheless it seems to be in our DNA so these sorts of activities will be with us forever in some form or another.

What I like about this is not the stupidity of the exercise but, rather, the great shape and form of the participants.  And of course there is something about shooting an arrow up, into the sky. It reminds of the the poem by Longfellow:

"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterword, in an oak
I found the arrow, still in broke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."

 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Or this saying from high school:

"I threw a pass into the air,
It fell to earth I knew not where;
But that is why I sit and dream,
Upon the bench of the second team."

Leaving out the real reason for the activity, this ‘Crazy Arrow’ game, the shape is ambiguous. The archer's aim is towards Heaven - is the arrow a prayer?  An attack on God?  Or, like Captain Ahab would do if he was insulted by the sun, he'd strike the sun back!   Is the arrow intended to strike the sun itself?  

Had this fellow who is shooting the arrow been in battle or maybe hunting birds, he would be down much lower, maybe hiding from the enemy or bird. Yet here he stands, as open and vulnerable as Michaelangelo's "David".  Now the historical / Biblical David would not have gone into battle against Goliath naked, as Michaelangelo has portrayed him - no.  The reason David appears naked in the massive sculpture is because he is "naked" in his love, his trust, and his faith of his God and thus has nothing, spiritually, to hide from his God.

So these archers can also appear to be in some sort of communication with the spirit / spirits that hover above them.

The viewer must interpret it for themselves.”

- Thom Ross