my lovers teeth are white geese flying above me

cast in bronze and also in plaster

7" x 9" x 5"

Artist's statement:

This piece was inspired by Judy Grahn’s poem A Woman Is Talking To Death. The poem starts:

My intention was not to make concrete illustrations of the images in Grahn’s words, but instead to illustrate where her words, as a point of departure, motivated the creation of something new and still familiar. The images that reside in words are not fixed. This piece is a reflection of one of those images, and where I happened to be one of the times that I reread Grahn’s poem. I meant this as a celebration of voice that is not always welcomed.