(H012) Dolphin - Color Chart Being a lover of ocean life, I long ago pondered as countless others have, if dolphins carry the ability for complex thoughts and relationships; numerous stories seem to validate this perspective.  This mystery is there as I attempt to express with clay the dolphin's anatomy, especially the front flippers.  Wondering if the flippers had been arms and hands with opposable thumb what would dolphin society have built.  So instead of literally making the flippers, I leave them unexpressed, just as the mystery will never be known.

(H013) Duck - Color Chart When I was pregnant with my last child, I had to spend the last two months prone.  It was May and the incubator, like a mother mallard was hatching baby ducks.  As each duckling broke forth from its egg, I took this wet form and gently laid it upon my breast, allowing the warmth of my body to dry its feathers, imprinting taking place between the three of us.  The duck, my unborn daughter and myself.  Very tender input which outputs my clay ducks.

(H014) Eagle Head Pendant - Color Chart When I commercial fished for salmon in Alaska, I had lots of free time to walk the shoreline in Yakutat.  One of my favorite activities was beachcombing with a lone eagle looking for driftwood, shells, glass balls from Japan and other flotsam.  He would let me get very close to his driftwood perch, then slowly arise on his wings and alight a safe distance away to repeat this dance with me over and over again. The form reflects the Tlingit culture I was adopted into in 1963.  I've created the eagle head to either stand alone as an art sculpture or to be worn as a pendant.