Raffaelo Monti (Italian), "Veiled Lady," marble, 1860. A bust subsequent to his famous full-figure sculpture "Veiled Vestal," seen in the 2005 film of "Pride and Prejudice." Why did he return to the same subject? I suspect he wasn't satisfied with his first attempt....

Odilon Redon (French), "Two Trees," 1875, charcoal. I see trees as figures in motion. Actors on a stage, hitting their marks, performing a mysterious drama. They have bodies and limbs and gestures that suggest movement by the way they have grown in response to the...

Nikki McClure, "Start Over Time." Paper cut. Olympia, Washington. A squirrel drey in a tree high above (where it belongs, not in my window AC where the fluffy little pea brains have been packing sticks and leaves). Like all of Nikki's work, this image was cut from a...