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A Canadian Portrait - "the people of our heritage"
 
"Fourteen generations ago, in 1634, my Grandpa Zachary came to this new
world from Monatgue in the Persche (Normandy) to build a country.
Two years ago, after a very close vote in Quebec, I realized that Canada
as we know it could be destroyed. We have lost sight of how great this
country can be if we work together.
I began to feel sad that my family had spent 363 years living, working,
raising families, fighting for, and dying, to build a country where we
could live as we choose, only to have a few, who seem to have forgotten
why we came here in the first place, cut a chunk off of our country for
themselves.
This wonderful place is for everyone and our children and their children....we
must keep it intact.
So, I decided that I wanted to show the many faces of the people who built
this country, "people from all over the world." I hope that you enjoy
this body of work, which I began in October 1996. Since each person has
his or her own story of what life is like in this country, I thought it
only fitting that they be mounted on talking sticks. They represent the
many people of our heritage who have contributed to the building of our
country.
Technically, these works are multimedia pieces, incorporating clay,
wood and leather. The heads are a combination of different colored clays,
with slips and stains, which were fired once in a gas kiln; they are mounted
on cedar.
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