“Sacred Incubation”

This sculpture was a labor of love. Over a handmade armature of wood, I layered thermoplastic textile and heated it over the billowing shapes, eventually layering it with natural beeswax in coats too numerous to count. The wax was inches thick, as the textile layer was mere millimeters. I may have removed almost as much as I had layered! On the inside of the vessel, a small sculpture created from macro photography of the gills of a tiny red mushroom found on the forest floor is suspended. As I removed and refined every curve, inside and out, I reflected how similar this is to the process of emerging into our truest selves as we navigate this life. We are worth the work of excavation to reveal our truest selves!