The grey days of November were too much to bear, spring just seemed a million miles away. So this trillium came about, amidst a longing for the sight of the magical glow of trilliums floating in the deep woods of Humboldt County. This sculpture consists of three separate vessels, each of which is hammered by hand using a series of different shaped "stakes" and special hammers to "raise" it into the flower shape before you. Beginning with thin sheet, repeated concentric overlapping hammer blows cause the form to raise from flat to concave. The piece becomes work-hardened, as the spaces between the copper molecules become compressed, so it is then "annealed", heated to red hot and plunged into cold water to soften it. After being soaked in acid to remove the oxidation from heating, the process of hammering in concentric circles can begin again.