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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - STRIKE!</image:title>
      <image:caption>This intricate high relief wall piece frames a sculpture that strikes at the globally and ongoing violence against women.  Asking: Are we really EXPENDIBLE?  Globally, 89,000 femicides – gender-based violence and killings - were reported by the UN in 2023. Dimensions: inches – 45h x 9w x 8d Materials:  Paper clay finished with stains &amp; paint; Mahogany hand-carved wood.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Supply And Demand</image:title>
      <image:caption>This two-piece installation integrates a bas relief wall piece of a geisha offering tea to a cantankerous man who raises his tea cup demanding tea. The Edo era Japanese Kabuki theater was played by stereotyped characters who used exaggeration to show their feelings through painted faces, dance, music and voice. Sculpture - Inches: 13.5h x 9w x 9d Bas relief – inches: 13h x 15.5w Materials: paper clay finished with stains, glazes and paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - COCOON</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated “self-sheltering” – quarantining ourselves from others. As do butterflies, we long to be free from our “cocoons” giving us a basic sense of well-being and independence. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - After</image:title>
      <image:caption>After shows an old woman who survived the horrific realities of human trafficking. I have set-up a dynamic tension in her posture, facial expression and choice of color to express her extreme despair. Dimensions (inches): 16h x 14w x 11d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of oxide. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - 6 Feet</image:title>
      <image:caption>These two distraught figures are earnestly reaching for each other but are unable to touch. To protect ourselves and the community from the Covid-19 virus, we had to "socially distance,” denying us the most human/animal need to be physically connected.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Kodama: Tree Spirit</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kodama, the Japanese term for “spirits”, live within trees protecting them from harm. However, when a spirit, “kami”, becomes angry, it can cause great destruction: global forest fires. Dimensions: Inches: 30h x 5.5w x 11.5d Materials: Clay finished with stains and acrylic paint. Base, beetle kill pine designed and built in collaboration with artist and craftsman, Craig Demmon. Sculpture is suitable for outdoor covered patios.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Tsunami - Wall Piece, Side View</image:title>
      <image:caption>Tsunami is a deadly wave, a wall of water, born from an undersea volcanic eruption exacerbated by rising seas from global warming. Dimensions: Inches: 14.5 h x 18.w x 19d Materials: Paper clay finished with glaze, stains and acrylic paint. Shelf, beetle kill pine designed and crafted in collaboration with artist Craig Demmon. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Broken</image:title>
      <image:caption>The iconic American flag, shredded and torn, wraps itself around blind justice. Dimensions: Inches - 21h x 9.5w x 9.5d Materials: Paper clay finished with slips, stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Ode to the Monarch</image:title>
      <image:caption>A billion monarch butterflies have vanished! Herbicides have eradicated their life source, the milkweed plant, and global warming has disrupted their migration patterns. Help bring them back: plant milkweed plants! Dimensions (inches): 26.75h x 22w x 19d Materials: Mixed- media - clay finished with glazes, stains and acrylic paint; old chair from Denver Public Schools; base, beetle kill pine.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Rage Rising</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mother Earth views her planet. Dimensions: 56h x 11w x 11d - on pedestal Materials: Mixed-media - paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint. Pedestal sold separately: Beetle kill pine designed and crafted in collaboration with artist Craig Demmon.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - LISTEN!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Only by LISTENING will the world community coalesce and shout for change: a call-to-action by every means, by every leader, country and individual to heal our earth. Dimensions (inches): 46h x 18w x 32.75d Materials: mixed-media wall sculpture. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Before we, as a global community, can take action, we must first LISTEN and clearly hear what is being said. This woman cries out for our planet, feeling outrage that the voices of science are not being heeded. Dimensions (inches): 46h x 18w x 32.75d Materials: mixed media wall piece sculpture. Shelf: beetle kill pine, designed and crafted by Craig Demmon. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Only by LISTENING will the world community coalesce and shout for change: a call-to-action by every means, by every leader, country and individual to heal our earth.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Imagine WOMEN'S RIGHTS held captive within the confines of the "Tea Party"! Dimensions (inches): 10.5h x 6.5w x 13d Materials: Mixed-media.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Caged</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whether forced to leave their homes because of war, denied education and job opportunities, women throughout the world have lost their human right to be free! Relief wall-hanging (inches): 27 diameter x 4.5 deep Materials: Paper-clay finished with stains, oxides and acrylic paint mounted on a painted wood disc.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>References the tragic experiences of displaced women from their home.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Borders: Flight</image:title>
      <image:caption>Fleeing their homes, what becomes of the women with their children when they are forced to become immigrants? Dimensions (inches): 20h x 18.5w X 10.5d Materials: Paper clay with surface treatment of stains and acrylic paints with stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Miriam, Moses’ sister and strong leader, was one of the first immigrants to seek freedom with other Israelites who fled Egypt. Dimensions (inches): 13h x 14.5w x 15d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 13h x 14.5w x 15d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Borders: An ongoing series</image:title>
      <image:caption>The tragic photo images seen through the media of thousands of people fleeing from their war torn homes has inspired this series of sculptures: displaced women, beginning with the flight of Miriam, sister of Moses, from Egypt.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Timely Commentary - Planet Response: Fragile</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 15h x 22d x 13w Materials: Paper clay with surface treatment of stains and acrylic paints. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 20h x 7w x 6.5d Materials: Mixed-media: Paper clay with surface treatment of stains, carbon carbonate, acrylic paint &amp; etched glass globe. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 22h x 17w x 17.5d Materials: Paper clay, stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 40h x 9w x 15d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of slips, stains, oxides and acrylic paint. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 13h x 8w x 16.5d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of stains and acrylic paints. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Imagine a world without Hate. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 11h x 11w x 12d Materials: Carved concrete. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions: inches 9.5h x 8w x 14d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of stains and underglazes. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After shows an old woman who survived the horrific realities of human trafficking. I have set-up a dynamic tension in her posture, facial expression and choice of color to express her extreme despair. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:title>I Am Music - The Lutanist</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Lutanist, a lute maker, used the Egyptian long-neck traditional design for her lute. Her image, part woman and part bird, recalls the mythology of "bird women," revered in many cultures. Suitable for outdoor covered patios and decks. Dimensions (inches) : 10.5h x 18w x 15d Materials: Clay, finished with stains and acrylic paints.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>I Am Music - Diva #1</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 24h x 11w x 11d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 37h x 12w x 17d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint - wooden bench. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 37h x 12w x 17d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint - wooden bench. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:title>I Am Music - Bass Woman</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 29"h x 16"w x 16"d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains, oxides and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 29h x 16w x 16d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains, oxides and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 13h x 18.5w x 17d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 13h x 18.5w x 17d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:title>I Am Music - Ngoni Woman</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches) - 20h x 12w x 17d Materials: Mixed-media: Paper clay, stains, oxides, acrylic paint and wood base. Instrument: Ngoni model built by Mark Fox - gourd, bamboo, leather skin, tacks. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:title>I Am Music - Cello Woman</image:title>
      <image:caption>Shown on a pedestal designed and crafted by Craig Demmon, architect and furniture craftsman. The pedestal is made from beetle kill pine with several grooves made by the beetles filled with colored resins that pick up colors found in the piece of sculpture. Dimensions (inches): 114h x 50w x 80d SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 38h x 20.5w x 18d Materials: Mixed media: Paper clay, stains, acrylic paint and a wooden chair. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:title>I Am Music - Serape Dancers</image:title>
      <image:caption>When Serape Dancers interact, the motion and attitudes of their bodies flow together to make a fluid yet strong visual and emotional statement. Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dancer #1 shows the pride of being who she is as reflected in her tall stance and joyful expression. Dimensions: (inches): 20h x 15.5w x 17d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dancer #2 shows the pride of being who she is as reflected in her body language and expression. Dimensions (inches): 9.5h x 17w x 14d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dancer #2 shows the pride of being who she is as reflected in her body language and expression. Dimensions (inches): 9.5h x 17w x 14d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 20h x 16w x 15.5d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 12.5w x 8h Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Covered in a tallit, a ritual shawl, Jewish women have been at the forefront of fighting for women’s rights. Many were suffragists who, in 1920, won the right to vote. Dimensions (inches): 18h x 6.5w x 5.5d Materials: paper clay finished with colored slips, glaze and stains.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 18h x 6.5w x 5.5d Materials: paper clay finished with colored slips, glaze and stains.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 18.75h x 7w x 5.5d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of slips, stains and oxides.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 18.75h x 7w x 5.5d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of slips, stains and oxides.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 15.5h x 8.5w x 8d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of slips and stains. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 15.5h x 8.5w x 8d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of slips and stains. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 16.5h x 15w x 14d Materials: Paper clay with surface finish of stains. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 16.5h x 15w x 14d Materials: Paper clay with surface finish of stains. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 34.5h x 17w x 27d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of stains and acrylic paints.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 34.5h x 17w x 27d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of stains and acrylic paints.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 37h x 18.5w x 19.5d Materials: Paper clay with stains, underglazes and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Totems - Totem: Eagle Woman</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cycle of Power: Daylight - All Seasons Illumination of Spirit, Healing &amp; Creation; Messengers from Heaven (Sun) and Connection to Earth; Visionaries. Bald eagles represent the feminine. Dimensions: inches – 19h x 13.76w x 9d Materials: clay, stains, glazes &amp; acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illumination of Spirit, Healing &amp; Creation; Messengers from Heaven (Sun) and Connection to Earth; Visionaries. Bald eagles represent the feminine.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cycle of Power: Nocturnal - Bird of the Night The Feminine; Prophesy &amp; Silent Wisdom; Magic &amp; Omens; Fertility &amp; Seduction; Extractor of Secrets. Dimensions: inches – 11.5 x 12w x 11.75d Materials: clay, stains, glazes &amp; acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Feminine; Prophesy &amp; Silent Wisdom; Magic &amp; Omens; Fertility &amp; Seduction; Extractor of Secrets.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Totems - Totem: Cocky Rooster</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cycle of Power: Daybreak Sexuality; Sun’s Resurrection; Power &amp; Mystery; New Optimism &amp; Acceptance of Eccentricities. Dimensions: inches - 28h x 11.5w x 17d Materials: clay, stains, glazes &amp; acrylic paint. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sexuality; Sun’s Resurrection; Power &amp; Mystery; New Optimism &amp; Acceptance of Eccentricities.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sexuality; Sun’s Resurrection; Power &amp; Mystery; New Optimism &amp; Acceptance of Eccentricities.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Totems - Totem: Hawk Man</image:title>
      <image:caption>Totem: Hawk Man Cycle of Power: Spring &amp; Fall Equinoxes – New Moon Messengers; Protectors; Visionary Powers; Inspiration for Creative Purpose Materials: clay, stains, glazes &amp; acrylic paint Dimensions: inches: 11h x 14w x 8.5d</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Totems - Totem: Hawk Man - Right side</image:title>
      <image:caption>Totem: Hawk Man - Right side Messengers; Protectors; Visionary Powers; Inspiration for Creative Purpose</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Totems - Totem: Hawk Man - Left side</image:title>
      <image:caption>Totem: Hawk Man - Left side Messengers; Protectors; Visionary Powers; Inspiration for Creative Purpose</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Totems - Totem: Crow Man</image:title>
      <image:caption>Crow’s cycle of Power: Winter Solstice Mysticism &amp; Magic; Shapeshifting Darkness into Light – Creation; Amorous &amp; Playful. Dimensions: inches - 12h x 12w x 11d Materials: clay, stains, glazes &amp; acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Totems - Totem: Crow Mama</image:title>
      <image:caption>Totem: Crow Mama Cycle of Power: All Day – All Year The striking black color of the crow is the color of creation; the color of the womb out of which the new is born; and the maternal black night gives birth to a new day. Her complex voice and high intelligence alerts other crows to danger. Where crows are, there is magic. Dimensions: inches – 20.5h x 10.5w x 10.5d Materials: paper clay, stains, glazes &amp; acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cycle of Power: All Seasons and during Daylight The Thunderbird is the most powerful bird totem. It usually is depicted in the eagle form, controlling lightning, thunder and rain, punishment and reward, and who has mystical powers associated with the sun – physical and spiritual. Constantly vigilant and bestowing its magical powers to others must lead to becoming worn-out. Therefore, retirement is in the wings! Dimensions: inches – 9.5h x 15.5w x 13.5d Materials: clay and stains suitable for outdoor gardens &amp; patios.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cycle of Power: Year-round As a bird of the sun, its bright colors give it magic. It has healing powers and is a wonderful teacher about light and colors. They are supposedly monogamous. However, have been observed “roaming” at night and returning to their nest in the morning. Hmmm… Dimensions: inches – 4h x 20w x 16d Materials: paper clay, stains, glazes and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Taiko drums, used in ancient Japan, communicated with allies and inspired warriors to battle. Thrilled by the Kodo performing drummers, I was inspired to capture the postures of the drummers and explosive volume and energy of their rhythmical drumming. Dimensions: 12h x 18w x 2d Materials: Mixed media – clay, wood, finishes of stains and paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conversations - Weight Of Time</image:title>
      <image:caption>Weight Of Time is an undeniable weight carried with the onset of aging. It must be balanced - and embraced. Dimensions: 22.5h x 10w x 16d – without wall shelf Materials: paper clay finished with stains, glazes and paint. Wood shelf: On request Beetle kill pine, designed and crafted by Craig Demmon.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conversations - Time Sneaks</image:title>
      <image:caption>Wall-piece, bas relief: As a witness to my own life sneaking by, I have an urgency to try to hold back time, to push it away. It occupies the internal and external atmospheres I live in; always manifesting resistance and acceptance. Dimensions: 12h x 19w x 5d Materials: paper clay, finished with stains, glazes and paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dialogue reveals an intimate discourse between two people using expressive facial expressions and body language. Dimensions (inches): 10.5h x 18w x 27d Materials: Paper clay with surface treatments of stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 10.5h x 18w x 27d Materials: Paper clay with surface treatments of stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conversations - Monologue</image:title>
      <image:caption>Monologue, sits by herself, contemplating her personal or perhaps more universal concerns. Her mirrored sunglasses, reflect the issues that she internalizes. Dimensions (inches): 13h x 10.5w x 15d Materials: Paper clay with surface treatment of stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conversations - Silent</image:title>
      <image:caption>An interactive piece where the dance of body language is all that is necessary - perhaps silencing the spoken word. This grouping of three interrelated pieces can be repositioned to tell many stories. Silent, shown on this table, is a collaboration with artist Craig Demmon, whose exquisite pedestal stand and my three dynamic pieces were designed to complement each other in form, texture and color. Materials Sculptures: paper clay with surface treatments of stains and acrylic paint. Material Pedestal table: beetle kill pine, designed and crafted by Craig Demmon. Three Figures and Pedestal are sold separately.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This fun dance piece explores just how dynamic Conversations can be using only legs and feet to communicate. Materials: paper clay with surface treatments of stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conversations - Silent - figure detail</image:title>
      <image:caption>This fun dance piece explores just how dynamic Conversations can be using only legs and feet to communicate.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conversations - Silent - different composition</image:title>
      <image:caption>This fun dance piece explores just how dynamic Conversations can be using only legs and feet to communicate. Dimensions: Arranged in a 27" diameter the highest point of the three dancers is 16.5"high. Materials: Paper clay with surface treatment of stains, underglazes and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conversations - Points Of View</image:title>
      <image:caption>Informed by contemporary dance, these three interrelated pieces are part of my Conversations series. Inevitably, when we communicate with other, each expresses a different Point Of View. Dimensions (inches): 10.5h x 17w x 28d Materials: Paper clay with surface finishes using stains and acrylic paints. Stands is made of beetle kill pine and is included with the piece.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Conversations - HOORAY!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Her free spirit, exuberant gesture and vitality define who she is as a woman celebrating life. Dimensions Including stand (inches): 41h x 31w x 9d Materials Sculpture: Paper clay finished with glazes, stains and acrylic paint. Stand, beetle kill pine, designed and crafted by Craig Demmon.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Acknowledging the screaming Voices within herself, how she reacts will determine the path her life will take. Dimensions (inches): 21h x 11.5w x 15d Materials: Paper clay finished with glazes, stains and acrylic paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This detail of Voices, shows the screaming heads of her emotional self.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Whimsical - The Mob</image:title>
      <image:caption>This gathering of "mobsters" was made to support Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. Dimensions of tallest "mobster" with stand (inches): 16.5h x 6w x 9.75d Materials: Paper clay finished stains and acrylic paints. ALL SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Whimsical - Savored Moments #1</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dimensions: 36h x 16w x 33d Materials: Mixed-media, paper-clay figure with surface finish of stains.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Whimsical - Savored Moments #2</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dimensions: 36h x 17w x 27d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Whimsical - Change</image:title>
      <image:caption>When we experience a monumental change in our lives - we react! The first head shows an initial response of surprise or perhaps horror; the second head reveals deep contemplation about the change; and the third, resolution. Dimensions: inches 20h x 15w x 20d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finishes of stains, oxides and acrylic paints.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 14h x 13w x 9d Materials: Ceramics sculpture finished with stains. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 14h x 13w x 9d Materials: Ceramics sculpture finished with stains. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions: 18h x 14w x 12d Materials: Paper clay, stains, glaze. NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions: 18h x 14w x 12d Materials: Paper clay, stains, glaze. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions: 18h x 14w x 12d Materials: Paper clay, stains, glaze. SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 12h x 11.5w x 8d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of slips and stains.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dimensions (inches): 12h x 11.5w x 8d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of slips and stains.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Banned Books - FOREVER by Judy Blume</image:title>
      <image:caption>A whole world opens up as young passion and sexuality bloom.  True love must be forever. Forever? Dimensions: inches: 10.5h x 13w x 13d Materials mixed media:   Book, glasses, paper clay, stains, glaze and paint</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"I must—I must—I must increase my bust. We must—we must—we must increase our bust!” Growing up is tough. Period. Dimensions: inches 18h x 9w x 9d Materials mixed media:  Books, paper clay, stains, glaze and paint</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The most banned book in the world! Authoritarian forms of government taking away all civil and personal liberties of the individual. High relief wall piece Dimensions: Diameter inches - 26 Materials:  Book: Paper clay finished with stains, glazes and on painted wood disc.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“In a land that loves its blond, blue-eyed children, who weeps for the dreams of a black girl?” Two-piece Installation: Pecola , sculpture with Blue-eyed Doll Dimensions: inches – 18h x 9.5w x 10d Materials:  Book; Mixed-media - paper clay finished with stains. Vintage doll - plastic, cloth and hair. Relief wall piece: Narrator (Claudia)  as an adult. Intolerant of passing on false racist stereotypes to children, Claudia’s resolution resonates through her defiant posture and attitude. Dimensions: inches – 16h x 8.5w x 3d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Based on the book for a young male reader, it is a memoir of being Black and Queer – “When you’re a child who’s different, there’s always something wrong with you…”  Dimensions: inches - 10.5h x 21w x 11d Materials: Book; Paper clay, stains, glazes and paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Banned Books - GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck</image:title>
      <image:caption>“…the naked realities of an America divided into HAVES and HAVE-NOTS.” Worn down and hopeless, this “Okie” woman is pulled from the pages of the story. Dimensions: inches – 10.75h z 4.5w 7d Materials: Book; Paper clay, stains and glaze.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Banned Books - LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding</image:title>
      <image:caption>“… tensions between people’s urge for savagery and controlling, and the loss of innocence.” Dimensions: inches – 10h x 5w x 7.5d Materials: Book; Paper clay, stains, glaze and paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Collaboration with Ndume. Imagine 10,000 books in schools and public libraries being held captive within a cage, wrapped in barbed-wire and surrounded by three faces: Hear No Evil; See No Evil; and, Speak No Evil. This is the reality of today! Dimensions:  inches – 36h x 13w x 13.5d Materials Mixed media: Books, cage, barbed wire, the American flag; painted faces with sculpted and painted hands.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This universally loved series of books by children and adults captures the magic of the imagination. Sorcerers, wizards, dragons and mysterious spells are all part of every reader’s escape into the joys of make-believe adventures. Dimensions: inches – 16h x 7w x 8d Materials: Mixed media: Book, Goblet with Harry Potter – paper clay, finished with stains, glaze, paint &amp; plastic stem. Dragon: Plastic with paint and “egg” – paper clay finished with stain, glaze and paint.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Banned Books - THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood</image:title>
      <image:caption>Enslaved because of their fertility, this scathing TALE is an ominous warning: "Who controls the women and babies has been a keystone of every repressive regime on the planet." Dimensions: inches16.5h x 12w x 11.75d Materials: Mixed media: Book, paper clay, stains, paint, wire-mesh corset.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mythology &amp; Biblical - Jacob's Triangle - detail</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jacob's Triangle - detail Inspired by the biblical story of Jacob, Rachel and Leah - each experiencing unrequited love.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jacob's Triangle - back view Inspired by the biblical story of Jacob, Rachel and Leah - each experiencing unrequited love. Dimensions (inches): 11.5h x 21w x 13d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and oxides</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mythology &amp; Biblical - Leda and The Swan</image:title>
      <image:caption>Leda and The Swan Depicts the Greek mythological story of Zeus who transformed himself into a swan, descended to earth and seduced Leda. As a result of this union, she gave birth to a goddess. Dimensions (inches): 18h x 18w : Wall piece Materials: Paper clay finished with stains $1,500</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Mythology &amp; Biblical - The Messenger</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Messenger In mythology, a phoenix is described as being 1/2 bird and 1/2 female. A phoenix has lighted on a woman's shoulder, bringing with her a message. The woman reacts, but, we so not know what the message is. Or do we? Dimensions (inches): 14h x 15w x 16.5d Materials: Paper-clay with surface finish of stains and acrylic paints $1,800</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rapunzel the fair maiden locked in a tower by a wicked witch flirts shamelessly with the handsome prince below who calls for her to let down her golden braids. Yes, he climbed up - AND... Dimensions (inches): 36h x 10.5w x 11d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint - Wooden tower NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rapunzel - detail the fair maiden locked in a tower by a wicked witch flirts shamelessly with the handsome prince below who calls for her to let down her golden braids. Yes, he climbed up - AND...</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rapunzel - back view Dimensions (inches): 36h x 10.5w x 11d Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and acrylic paint - Wooden tower</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rapunzel - detail of Prince The handsome prince calls for her to let down her golden braids. Yes, he climbed up - AND...</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hamsa Material: Paper-clay SOLD</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Birth of Venus Dimensions (inches) 28h x 12.5w x 10d Materials: Ceramics sculpture finished with stains and glazes NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Birth of Venus - view #2 Dimensions: inches 28h x 12.5w x 10d Materials: Ceramics sculpture finished with stains and glazes - NFS</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Eve's Rib - soft sculpture Dimensions (inches): 19.5h x 10w x 13d Materials: Soft sculpture mixed-media NFS</image:caption>
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