After the individual elements are split and hollowed they are reassembled using wood “biscuits”,  a common technique for joining wood elements.  My original intent was to clean them up, hide the evidence, but, once the glue had set, a striking resemblance to scars and sutures was inescapable.  So something that had started out to be just a more efficient technique for hollowing and reassembling the forms suddenly seemed to connect with and intensify themes that had already started to emerge in the work.  Scars and sutures imply an experience of trauma but also are evidence of resilience, a suggestion of the possibility of healing, a paradox of vulnerability and renewal.  Then again they could be just the sewing up after the autopsy, or a crude taxidermy.  An example of an iterative process yielding unexpected results, and how process and meaning are intertwined.