A few watercolors, some drawings and other work. I began the Milagro Frog series in 2007 and just recently completed the narrative. I've used the frog to tell my stories since the mid-eighties. Whenever we traveled to Mexico to visit family, we would stop at the mercado. I always wanted to buy a marachi frog figurine, but my father wouldn't let me. Years later, I finally bought a tiny frog playing an accordion. At home, I examined my purchase and then discovered it wasn't a toy, but an actual taxidermied toad. It then struck me that these frogs had been sacrificed for our small pleasures. This, in my mind, made them a type of penitente, accepting his pain for the good of all. Okay, I admit that's strange, but that's just the way my mind works....
