One of the things I loved to do when I was young was to imagine mythological creatures that could live in my area. As a kid growing up surrounded by the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, there was always a mythos of the creatures that roamed the woods. This creature isn’t a play on any myth in particular, but mainly an idea of an animal I can see having evolved to lived in northern woodlands. Strong, sturdy, and as elusive as they come, somewhere between horse and goat. Mostly likely a creature evolved from the family of three-toed ungulates, but lost to time.

This project was created with paper clay. This water-based clay allows me to create very light, hollow and highly detailed sculptures.