"I have always been drawn to the outdoors.  I love exploring landscapes, collecting and arranging things I find there.  Nature offers me its patterns, colors, and textures for inspiration.  My first ceramic figure began as a kind of re-creation of an antique doll.  Thinking of the story of Icarus, I experimented with the addition of wings to subsequent figures, which gave them a sense of potential and energy.  As I carve, texture and and mark the clay, a narrative identity emerges.  Found objects, both natural and man-made inform this identity as well.  The narrative implications of the work sem to originate as much with the viewer as with myself.  I see this viewer participation as the final step in the animation of the figures." - Valerie Bunnell

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