2007. 

Mixed media, 8.75 x 6 x 2.5 inches.

"Little Fish..." is a sentimental cabinet, showing love birds only interested in each other and making a nest for themselves. 

They have set up home in what appears to be an old pie-safe, and have even embraced a home-truth about what's best to eat--lest one of them forgets when out hunting food--catch the little fish. 

The birds, though in the same environ-ment as the bottles and floating green marble, seem to only have eyes for each other.

The bottles do not offer them any source of nourish-ment, and perhaps were left behind by the former tenants.

The verso, however, gives a stark reality check on the sentimentality of the scene on the front of the piece. 

It offers a pristeen background bearing the charged and remorseful words of Walt Whitman:

"But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?"

Did the golden birds find what they started out for?

Or is their attempt at domesticity but one stage of their live's journey?