Teanu

Made to honor my husband as he graduated from Medical School this Spring. I searched all kind of websites to find some contemporary polynesian sculptures, and only found a few rare tiki and wood carving. Where are all the polynesian artists? Better not be tattooing pineapples on people's butts.

coil pot

I haven't spent enough time to throw on the wheel, so my pots are made out of coils. It's fun and it doesn't break your back.
It's nothing like the pots potters in Asia or Mexico make. Yeah...i'm not a potter, and i didn't try too hard either, so here is what you get.

self-portrait

Symbolic self-portrait inspired by the tikis of the Easter Islands and by the covenants I made.
It broke during the firing and I obviously had to glue it, but I still put it in there ( i am not professional)

l'enfant blond

Teanu dit que mon cheval ressemble a un dinosaure, et il a raison! Cette sculpture represente la partie centrale d'un reve long et detaille. Je l'ai faite pour me rappeler l'interpretationdu reve.

elephant time- just for fun

Patience

I was exhausted by my demanding children: two young toddler still to be carried. I felt my body was responding to all their needs but my patience inside was limited. On this sculpture, I don't regret the big breasts falling towards the child. Aren't the breasts the receptacle of all that is good? Sure, it can be inappropriate. But it's reality. And the barrel like belly is there as a testimony that child rearing is stretching us beyond our limits. Isn't in the belly that most of us feel our anger starting to roar up?
Yet, the bond is strong and our arms are reached.