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Creatures

Some of the creatures are the horned toads and snakes I played with as a kid in Eastern Oregon, and the black beetles I enjoy on the first rainy nights in Nevada County.
 
Here are three of the four versions I made over a period of years of Two Legged, Four Legged No Legged Creatures. I was trying to understand the relationship of human beings to animals.
 
There are lots of snakes - partly because they are so much fun to draw, but mostly because they have been important in my life as symbols. On both my Nevada County properties I was visited by California King Snakes - not a common happening. Snakes are also symbols of women's power; in my case, my power as an artist. A snake came to me in a dream in the 1970's as a strong wake-up call about my artistic life, and I heeded it. That's what Birth of a Woman is about.