Rebirth

Artist Statement: This piece was created to express my perception of death. It is a clay mask created by pushing clay into a plaster mold of my face and then sculpted to achieve the finer details. When I die, my soul will pass on but my physical body will remain a part of the earth. My flesh will become the dirt beneath us, symbolized by the clay by which it is made. The antlers represent the animals that will benefit from my death as well as the flowers who will absorb nutrients from my decomposing body. through death, I will become one with mother earth.