Animal Tracks

摘要

For many years, I lived in the Yukon wilderness (see the February 1993 CM), where animal tracks were an important part of my world. Although we actually saw our wild neighbors only occasionally, the tracks they left behind told us of their comings and goings. They ranged from the cross stitching of a mouse on winter snow to the ambling of a grizzly along the beach. One day, I found a particularly magnificent wolf track on the lake shore and cast it in plaster. I then began collecting tracks of all the other animals in the area; eventually, my collection grew to over two dozen species. Being a potter, I (of course) pressed these molds into clay. This led to a Canada Council grant and a project that spanned many years.