Paper Wings: Fearless
Unique Cast Bronze and Patina
21 x 23
x 13
in
It started with looking at my children playing and making their other world; if they needed wings, they would make them from paper and sticks tied together. Their masks were transforming and all - consuming for them,they believed, and they became the bird.
We use a mask as a facade to be the thing we sometimes cannot be, to fill that spot or give us courage. Sometimes it is the unknown that we fear, so we do not step when it is the step into that unknown that we need to live and breathe. The figure prepares to fly away on her paper wings. It is a leap of faith that her wings will hold. In that moment, she must be fearless to take the leap.