| Minds Intertwined, 2006 Commissioned by: Private Collector Medium: Red Cedar, Acrylic Paint Dimensions: 29” x 27” x 20” This oversized Mask represents a Tlingit Shaman under the influence of his Octopus Spirit Helper. |
Two Crows and a Snake, 2007 Created by Artist for Solo Exhibition at the Stonington Gallery, Seattle. Medium: Douglas Fir Dimensions: 66” x 28” x 4” This panel was inspired by just what the title says, two crows I witnessed tossing a garter snake near Poulsbo, WA. The strong muscles at the base of the Crow’s tails are personified as is common in this art form. These small faces represent an old and a young man with bird and human features. | 
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 | Hungers Awakening, 2006 Created by Artist for Solo Exhibition at the Stonington Gallery, Seattle. Medium: Douglas Fir Dimensions: 45” x 28” x 6” The Main character of this deep relief carving is a Diving Osprey with a Bear clutching a Sun its back. Around the Sun’s Corona Frogs are carved in shallow relief. The face of the sun is a half raptor, half man. All the creatures represented are ones that return or emerge in the spring. The panel is intended to use the interplay of light and shadow to reveal the details of the carving. |
19) Cedar Elder, 2008 Medium: Red Cedar and Bark, Horsehair Dimensions: 24” x 9” x 11” This Mask represents a Tsimsian Native Elder and is carved in that style. The mask is simply carved of cedar, unpainted and decorated with horsehair and cedar bark. |  |
 | The Rain Post, 2008 Medium: Red Cedar, Douglas Fir Dimensions: 8” x 14” x 14” This post is carved with symbols inspired by basketry motifs and carvings from the Puget Sound area and Lower Columbia River. The pole is the story of the movement of water from the heavens at the top of the pole represented by the sun and moon above clouds. From the clouds comes the rain, where it falls upon the people, represented by the faces in the middle of the pole. Below are ripples represented by concentric circles and the wavy lines represent the flow of a river. |
21) The Owl and the Moon,1999 Medium: Alder, Acrylic Dimensions: 11” x 11” x 3” This piece represents Owl carrying the spirit of a young woman in the moonlight. |  |
| Shamanism, 2006 Medium: Douglas Fir Dimensions: 29” x 29” x 7” A Tlingit Shaman is depicted clutching four small masks that represent his or her spirit helpers. The Shaman is wearing a traditional type of headdress and amulet. There are two dogfish in profile flanking the shaman. Otters, an important Shamanistic creature, are on either side of the top with a human skull in between. The panel is intended to depict the whole array of Shamanistic paraphernalia and expressing some of the life and death seriousness of any practice of medicine. The idea was to bring a Shaman together with traditional objects and creatures and express some of the power of the scene. |
The Eagle Chief, 2007 Medium: Red Cedar, Acrylic Dimensions: 22” x 7” x 4” This small totem represents a Chief of the Eagle Clan. He is wearing an apron with a cloud design and clutching an Eagle. He wears a headdress of an Eagle and is surmounted by an Eagle clutching a copper (a symbol of chiefly wealth), with an Eagle design on its face. |  |
 | West Coast Canoe Bowl, 2008 Medium: Spalted Alder, Glass Beads, Acrylic Dimensions: 16” x 6” x 5” This is a bowl carved in the style of a Makah Canoe. Its gunwale is decorated with seed beads and is painted in the fashion of models of this type of canoe from the 19th century. |