If you have ever had the opportunity to live, stay or even just visit the San Juan Islands I bet you understand this sculpture.  

I grew up on Orcas Island which is the large horseshoe shaped island on the top of the globe, and have recently been able to move back. The idea for this sculpture came to me last summer as I was sitting in Eastsound watching all that was going on at the local farmers market. I was thinking about how some of the local people I know have not left the islands in years just because they had no want or need. I was also noticing those who where visiting the islands brining with them such an excitement that is so contagious. Well I was just sitting there thinking the thought came into my mind how the islands are there own little world almost separate from the rest then the an image came into my mind of a world globe; not with the traditional contents on it but of the Islands from the San Juan Islands in their place.  

I have on the bottom the globe I have “SAN JUAN ISLANDS” then below that “OUR OWN LITTLE WORLD”. This small version is not cast in bronze but is out of Hydrostone then gold leafed and hand painted. I am working on a larger version that will turn and will have my sunset relief around it which I will cast in bronze