Dreamcatcher and Lord of the Rings

Dreamcatcher and Lord of the Rings

My good friends Jim and Vada Binick commissioned this bronze of their family American Eskimo members Cassie and Strider- both national champions. They own and operate Kiva kennel.

In talking with Jim, a most excellent craftsman and thinker in his own right, we decided to sculpt a Native American Hopi Kiva, with ladder and smoke emerging. The smoke solidifies into a spirit dog. She wears an Egyptian pendant which we copied from an ancient Egyptian artifact of a dog wearing that pendant. The dog looked remarkably like Cassie, and must have been royal or spiritually special. Strider is cast separately and looks up at his mother emerging.