identity search animals

The animals with flowers for heads reflect the most negative ditzy feelings about myself.

I have started working with combining different parts of various barnyard animals. This search for identity relates to my own feelings of being more than just a girl or just a ceramics major. I have been feeling like I am not an identifiable creature. These feelings lead me to create the Identity Search series.

I spy a wolf's eye

This bad boy is the product of wanting to get myself out of working small. Everything I make I have a personal connection to... this time I made a wolf thinking I had no connection to it or personal story behind it, but connections came as the piece grew. People would feel the need to tell me their own connections and stories about wolves. This in turn gave me my own story. I played around with this piece a lot. I liked the idea of the lion and the lamb, but I did not want it to be so cliche. So, I did my own interpretation of peace, and went with a wolf and a birds nest.