BIRD/WOMAN
This sculpture was carved of Utah oolitic limestone, in 1996. It is about 12"x20"x15", and I still have it. The image is a reclined female figure, watching herself turn into a bird. The wing replacing her right arm is wrapping around her, as if enveloping her in her new identity. The idea expresses the interrelatedness of all life, as do all the "shapeshifters" I have carved. We carry within our DNA the evolutionary memories of all the other beings that have preceded us, and their emergence in our current lives is one of those wonderful mysteries of life.