From 1992 - 1995, I took several classes with artist Marvin Oliver on Northwest Native American 2-D and 3-D design. Prior to carving, I forged my own adze blades using car leaf springs as source material. The masks were carved from freshly-cut alder log sections, using the adze to rough out the design and then straight and bent knives to complete details. Copious sanding with increasingly finer grit finished the raw mask form. Human/animal hair, abalone and other shell, soapstone, copper, acrylic paint and other materials were incorporated into the designs.
