Top left to right: Egg 26, Egg 21, Egg 16, Lower left: Rae.

Mystery Eggs, Assorted

When I first conceived of the idea of creating abstractions, I had been making cardboard eggs.
I made a personalized abstract mystery on a three inch high egg for my Dad, and I could not get over how inspired he had been!

Since 1970, I had been in meditation upon the macro version of shaping upon earth, and also in space.
I did not get very far, but I had a theory about the shape of my body and of its' counterparts in nature- all of them- birds, trees, butterflies, etc.

Although I am neither a linguist nor a lexicographer, I was intrigued by what thinking actually generated the shaping of our worlds' alphabets, and I had faith in the concept that humankind, and indeed, our world, existed as a microcosm, a reflection of greater Creation.

This work was the result of co-operation between species, and is, directly, an attempt to record the thought and/or song of a small friends' love.

Mystery Egg #1

lexicographer

Main Entry: lex·i·cog·ra·pher
Pronunciation: \?lek-s?-'kä-gr?-f?r\
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Greek lexikographos, from lexikon + Greek -graphos writer, from graphein to write
Date: 1658
: an author or editor of a dictionary

To the left, one of my favourite paintings echoes the awareness of one of Natures' lexicographers.

Perfect Stars: gouache on matting board

Perfect Stars

From my own perspective, eggs are not just the traditional egg shape. I conceived my images to be eggs of potential and microcosms of meaning.
Stars and Galaxies can be many shapes, when perceived through massive instruments, and they can also be viewed as "eggs",potential shaping of greater future beings, or entities.

The "Perfect Star" was an "egg" of my own sentiment and sensibilities. It was made for someone very special!