12”h x 10”w x 5”d

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This exuberant piece captures the primal elation I feel at the coming of Spring and expresses my deep sense of wanting to nurture our beautiful Earth - so I guess you could say it is part celebration and part prayer. The house-shaped box came to me with an all-white exterior and an interior already painted with lovely pinks and blues and scattered with glitter by - I’m guessing - a child.  I loved the interior colors so much I decided to incorporate them into the work - so this is a secret collaboration with an unknown child artist.

Materials:  upcycled house-shaped shelf/box; metal hook repurposed from broken candle holder; vintage tin plate from child’s tea set; wooden cradle; earth bead; assorted flower and bird papers (chickens too!); fragments of mosaic glass; feathers; assorted paper flowers and plastic grass; small plastic egg; acrylic paints.