(H015) Egg - Color Chart One of the first concepts I heard expressed as a toddler was the word "egg".  My mom grew up on a chicken hatchery here in East Saugatuck and carried her love of fowl with her to Detroit,  satisfying her upbringing to raise canaries in our tiny apartment.  My dad worked as a pigment chemist which instilled within me a deep passion for the color spectrum.  Taking the beige and tinted clay, weaving the colors together to simulate marble or wood allows me to in turn express the influences of my childhood.

(H016) Elephant Head - Color Chart At this point it is the head of the elephant I'm most focused upon, not letting the rest of the body interfere with my drive to recreate the ears, trunk and brow of the elephant, and last but not least - the eyes.  I'm so mindful of the elephant, whose ears are used to cool the body and hear the voice of an elephant miles away.  The trunk, the elephants hand, able to perform complex activities just like ours, and the brow hiding that marvelous brain and most of all the eyes - the window to the soul of an elephant.

(H017) Face #1 - Color Chart Children who never got the chance to live. Unborn and tiny infants dying before their time, going before us to break trail - we who are left behind.  I am so aware of this; I experience it every time I make a face.  Of the two children I lost to miscarriages, wondering their sex, wondering their personalities, wondering.... Knowing that they and other infants are using my hands and this clay to say "We still exist, we have power, we love you."