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Shadows Below is my favorite creation of any work I have ever done. No piece of furniture I have made or painting I have done or photograph I have taken has pleased me as much as this piece. I believe that an artist has only so many works in him that he truly finds satisfying on every level and that a lot us work for many years before we find one of those pieces. This is one of those pieces for me. When I created this sculpture I worked straight through for nearly four days and at the end of that time the piece was done, ready for the mold maker and ready to cast. This is the only sculpture I've ever completed where that has happened. Normally it is an agonizing period where you constantly are changing things, sometimes right up to the moment it is ready forthe mold maker. Not this one. When it was done it was done.

Where I live in the mountains of Northern Colorado we have mountain lions. We have almost more than our share in fact. Several times I have found mule deer kills that were taken by lions that were within three hundred yards of the house. This area is perfect mule deer and mountain lion country with dense stands of pine and isolated rock outcroppings and drop offs with century old animal trails running through them. There have been times when we have been walking and had that feeling that you were being watched. But look all you want, you can not see who it is.

Shadows Below tells the story of a mountain lion resting on a rock outcropping. At ease until he spots something moving in the shadows below him. Ever watchful for that next opportunity he tenses and considers his next course of action. Then just as suddenly he is gone, off to do what he does best, fulfil his destiny as Nature intended.

Bronze, marble base. Dimensions approx: 22"W 18"H 8"D - View 2

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