When I first met Lauren at the gallery, I couldn't even hear her say her name. She was so quiet and timid, she wouldn't look me in the eye, and her head was bowed in shyness. I wasn't sure how I could find her personality underneath the layer of bashfulness. But once she put on her favorite blue dress and her dancing toe shoes, she surprised us all. It was almost as if that dress was magic and the blushing little girl disappeared. With a little choreography and a mound of clay, I found her childlike spirit. Lauren in Blue became the courageous dancing girl who posed for me and many onlookers that special day in the gallery.

Dancer, Ballet, Child