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    • Monster Under the bed. Addams Family
    • Moon
    • Tiamat - She Kills Monsters
    • Shark
    • Harp
    • Jack the Giant Killer
    • Boots
  • Costumes
    • Snow White
    • Monkeys
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • The Nutcracker
    • Nutcracker Mice
    • Nutcracker dress
    • Nina West as Ursula
    • The Little Mermaid
    • Peter Pan
    • Frankenstein
    • James and the Giant Peach
    • Doughnuts
    • A Celtic Christmas
    • Aladdin
    • Body Painting collab
    • Pizza dress
    • She kills monsters
    • Alice in Wonderland
    • Hat
    • Henry Hess costume collab.
    • Fairyland Sasha kids
    • Mummy
    • Circle dresss
    • Green dress
    • Antler guy
    • Cow
    • Viking
    • Blackbirds
    • Hag
    • Animals
    • Beauty and the Beast kids
    • Tophat
    • Inferno judge
    • Cast of
    • Collaboration wig/hat
    • Teaching costume and makeup
    • Collaboration puppet
  • Sculpture
    • Wicked Witch of the West
    • Crow vase
    • Seahorse
    • Time and Manipulation
    • Orange crow
    • Pigeon man
    • San Francisco Zoo
    • Bronze Seed pods
    • Bast
    • MFA >
      • Follow the Leader
      • The Little Voices
      • If My Daughter Had Been a Bird
      • Grandmother to All
      • If My Son Had Been a Bird
      • If My Dad Had Been a Bird
      • If My Mom Had Been a Bird
      • If I Had Been a Bird
  • Mascots
    • Ice Cream Mascot
    • Dog Mascots
    • Baby Chick
    • Oakland A's Refurbish/Repair
    • Frog
    • Red panda
    • Popcorn
    • Mold Spores
    • Laura Hazlett Collab
  • Window Displays
    • Haunted House Display
    • Angry birds
    • Pokemon
    • Pumpkin patch
    • Foxes
    • Tree monster
    • Collaboration display
  • Props and displays
    • Charlie Brown
    • Angry birds
    • Alice in Wonderland props
    • Aladdin backdrop and propa
  • Fashion
    • Goth Wedding Dress
  • Public Art
    • Wicked Witch of the West
    • San Francisco Zoo
    • Urban scrawl bronze
    • Urban scrawl moon goddess
    • Bunny Lady
    • Weber Gardens
  • Animal Advocacy
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Follow the Leader was inspired by the observation of animals and people being guided by instinct or a belief. In my case, I created the piece in the work as a life-sized Mother Nature inspired character in the form of a tree based on my own desire to follow nature but includes token and shrine type objects inside to open it to many possible ideas.
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Follow the Leader 2013 
60”H x 76”W x 60”D
Steel frame, foam, wire, textiles, found objects.


This piece was inspired by following instincts, leaders, flocks,
religions.  I chose the form of a
  tree and woman because I feel best when I follow Mother Nature and my instincts
  versus a religion or what someone says I should do or not. During my research I
  found Shrine Trees pictured in Greece where different people put religious
items, tokens or gifts inside. I put several found object tokens inside and a
bird figurine representing motherhood, one of the strongest of instincts for any
  animal in my opinion. My theatrical costume background influences a lot of my
  work when I imagine a piece as a character, like this one being Mother
Nature.  



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