Greif is the thing
with feathers
Materials: Wood board used in failed attempt at another sculpture; egg shells from eggs eaten in December 2024; milk weed pods and fluff from a visit to Gopi in November 2024, the seeds were planted in my yard and are grew; drift wood found on the Potomac in 2023; Juniper wood found in New Mexico October 2021; mesh from the back of a tile square gotten from buy nothing Petworth in 2022; dinosaur toy found in my house, origin unknown; sea shells from Ocracoke beach trip in 2015 with Michelle’s family (when I first learned to play in the ocean); reproduction of a Cycladic ‘Idol Girl’ sculpture bought in Athens 2022 to replace the one I bought in 1994 on a family vacation, at that time I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen; twisted metal rod found on the street in Petworth 2019.