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Restless Nights

The image was conjured up during a fitful night of sleep....the troubled mind thrashing about in tandem with its restless body. The realities of Willis-Ekbom Disease, otherwise known as Restless Leg Syndrome.

Size: 43" tall; 1/2" thick plaster; 9" diameter base

Media: all harvested from nature within a few miles of home: Snake River driftwood with earthen plaster (clay, sand, straw) and ocher pigments • beeswax finish • willow twig hair

Transculturation

The iconic tipi form of the nomadic Great Plains Indians combined with wattle and daub, a permanent method of wall construction dating back to the Neolithic Period. Consisting of mud plaster pressed into woven sticks, wattle and daub was used by a variety of cultures and is still utilized today, indigenously and by natural builders due to its very low embodied energy, low costs, beauty, and ease.

Size: 70" tall; 30" diameter base

Media: all harvested from nature: pine pole structure • hand-woven willow wattle • clay, sand, and straw daub • sponge polished earthen plaster finish (clay, sand, cattail fluff) with red ocher pigment • wood finished with solvent and drier free linseed oil

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Yin & Yang

The Yin Yang symbol was a Chinese developement representing the celestial phenomenon. It was later adapted as a way of describing seemingly opposite or contrary forces that can be complementary and interconnected in the natural world.

Size: 12" diameter, 1.25" thick

Media: constructed using the wattle and daub method with materials harvested in nature within a few miles: willow wattle • clay, sand, and straw daub • clay paint with red and yellow ochers, and charcoal as pigments • beeswax finish

Vessel

Size: 6 " diameter, 9" tall

Media: constructed using the wattle and daub method with materials harvested in nature: willow wattle • clay, sand, and straw daub • clay paint with red and yellow ocher pigments • beeswax finish