TARANTUGA

From the age of 3, I had a compulsion for distilling the shape of things. All that I've made before the age of twenty-five is hardly worth mention. At thirty-three, I began to glean the true composition of animals, plants, trees, birds, fish, and insects. At ninety, I will transcend the veil of the void. At a hundred and twenty, all form -- every impression, every complexion -- will breathe.