This work was commissioned by a friend in Lacoste, to stand poolside, and I called her quite simply “Angel in the Garden”. Something of a guardian angel, something of a fantastical phenomenon on her own. I imagined she had landed and bathed in the pool. Her wings folded, heavy with water, her hair also heavy and wet as she tries to arrange it, leaning on a simple vasque on a pedestal, with ivy. The wrap falling off her is a kind of nod to faux modesty, but is also a structural element to add strength to the lower part of the sculpture. Unfortunately, most of the slides are dark tinted; the first slide of the piece in progress shows that the stone was very white and fine-grained, and the last image two years later in 1997. I started this piece in the fall of 1994 and finished in spring 1995.