13”h x 16.5”w x 1”d

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This is a piece that asks us to leave behind the scientific “which came first” debate between chicken and egg and celebrate instead the incredible magic of the whole infinite biological cycle that includes egg, tiny chick, and big chicken.  It is the wholeness of this cycle, not any one of the parts, that is anointed “king” in this piece.  I love the way the buttons, bingo tokens, and wheels from a train kit evoke what the cellular world looks like through high powered microscopes, and I had great fun playing with the color gradations of the buttons.

Materials:  folk art rooster, wooden eggs, embroidered chick, perfume bottle, altered doll house table, wooden game piece, gold coasters, straw coasters, buttons, metal containers, clay leaves, bingo tokens, plastic train wheels, acrylic paints.