This post copied from Nikita's question posted on the Facebook Group

[laur...@lauraleekharris.com]

Hi LauraLee :)
In all of your pieces something distinctive stands out, (eg. face,
hand, etc.)
How long does it take you to find these features?
do you look for somewhat the same thing in each piece of wood, or
something different?

[laur...@lauraleekharris.com]

Hi Nikita,
How long does it take to find all these images that I find...I would
say I could not measure it in time but perhaps in moments of "I See"
progression for it is a progressive work that I illuminate in me and
of itself over time of water sinking down into its life of grains
while more images emerg, that I see and I progressively build on that
work that is both the tree and me. Sometimes I look for a preconcieved
thing like in commsisioned pieces where I am honed on a theme but for
the most part, I have no preconcieved ideas of what I conciously want
only perhaps what is subconciously buried within me as a "Red-
Pedogogy" of process. "It evokes the Native creative process as being
equivilant to ceremony that needs to go "within" in order to create."
Tannis Nielson - OCAD Indigenous Professor. "Many people think that
all knowledge is captured in books. But really, everything that there
is to know exists between the pages of those books and the edge of the
Universe." and also "We both use the traditional teachings as the
foundations for our designs" Douglas Cardinal - an architect known for
his work on the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, not least
his belief that the design of a building is a spiritual act.