This sculpture was created as I sifted through the loss of my mother, examined my own mortality, and have been witnessing my nieces, nephews, and children in their journeys of their life stages.  I continue to be amazed by their courage in letting go and experiencing that which calls them, and am grateful for the energy which it helps to ignite in my own evolution.

I made this piece by forming encaustic medium onto wire, hand-coloring each with powdered pigment, and adorning the surface with tiny droplets of wax.  These spores appear to be growing out of the found wood, and perhaps discovered among the forest floor.