It was made at a time when I was exploring the idea of yoga practice and mediation as way to transcend reality. During my thesis in graduate school, I explored what auras could look like and what if they could take on the shapes of animals. I'm glad this looks hopeful to you, it was my attempt at making an uplifting sculpture. The figure and the bird were made in oil-clay and molded and then cast from recycled aluminum and the wave parts are aluminum tubing. The figure and bird were originally meant to be a model for a life-sized sculpture, but I kinda ran out of steam to work that big at that time, so it stayed that size. Its name comes from a Bill Callahan song about the space between the wind and the dove. I was really trying solidify the ephemeral at this time.