The survivors in Ovid's account of the Great Flood re-populate the earth with the magic of artistic creation. Instructed by the gods, the man and woman reach into the primordial ooze pulling out bits of stick and bone and mud, and throw this refuse over their shoulders, dreaming of creatures and beings who will creep and crawl and wander through their brave new post-apocalyptic world. Magically, the sticks, the bones, the mud, transform, shape-shift into moose, bear, whales, lions, giraffes and all matter of the wondrous creatures who walk among us today.

This positive, creative response to the terrible destructive annihilation of the flood inspired me. I commemorate and celebrate their artistic acts with these bits of stick and bone which have metamorphosed through my hands and my spirit into creatures and beings from my own imagination.