Morningstar Sculptures:

Sculpture 1               The Beaver

... Shelly's first soap-stone sculpture in 2007 and in Sault Ste Marie is a very typical Canadian beaver. Now some of her admirers wondered why would she carve a Beaver? The artist's explanation is that she based this sculpture on her intuition which she perceived to be that the stone "wanted to be a beaver" Beavers are very Canadian. They exemplify the hard working spirit of the people in a land that needed hard work to become the jewel of the world's nations. As basic as Canadian industriousness is the artist's need to start at the beginning, and additionally, a major significance was to tie this beginning to her own beginnings and "...invoke the blessings of Mother Earth's greatest carvers" for this purpose ...

Sculpture 2               The Matriarch

... Affectionately nicknamed Joy, the Matriarch is now complete and ready for viewing ...

... Dimensions and description coming soon ...

Soapstone carving

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Sculpture 3               The Firebirds

... The sculpture "Firebirds" represents to me the rising from ashes like Phoenix to overcome adversity and soar above it all. It is this spirit that typifies the first peoples of Turtle Island, the striving, the jubilant arising after the devastation...

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Sculpture 4               Rainbow Eagle

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Sculpture 5               The Swan

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