hough I've spent a decade researching and refining these sculptures (not full-time!), they've actually been incubating somewhere in my psyche since I was about 4 years old. I believe I learned to read with Butler's Lives of the Saints. Anyone familiar with this 4-volume set of tomes knows they contain stories every bit as bizarre and intriguing as Grimm's Fairy Tales (another one of my early favorites). It was my godmother and mentor, Aunt Marie (long since up there with the saints herself) who introduced me to them, along with virtually any other book I might have been interested in. (And I'm still interested in just about any book!) Though she was far more religious than I, she also loved history and did her best to make it come alive for me. It was those fantastic, heroic tales and historical glimpses that have stayed with me, finally coming forth to blend with the skills and interests I've acquired through the years.

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