This series represents an investigation of the metaphors presented by bones: the basic internal structures of our physical beings, young and strong, older and hollow, broken, reformed, pushing up and out into new forms.  As I explore my personal human heritage, what my presence may add, and its relationship to the future, I see making "new bones" as not only possible, but important.  The prototypes of these sculptures were made with stone cast plaster I didn't want to throw away following an art unit with some of my advanced art students.  With their help I got the plaster in the ground before it dried.  I am motivated by the connections created by this collaboration between artists, students and teacher, between real and metaphorical bones -- those we stand on or newly made, each one unique, all connected through time and imagination.

New Bones 1-7 (1-4 shown): Single stone cast plaster sculptures from excavated earthen cavity molds.

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Eulogy for a Family Farm: Mixed Media