Another Little Piece of My Heart Size:Small (8 x 8 in) the snow fence that lines

the snow fence that lines the lakefront - primarily to keep snow banks from drifting onto Lake Shore Drive - has taken a real beating

In the waning days of December 2021 I visited several beaches along the Lake Michigan shoreline

I designed a four-leaf clover several years back and then kept finding more and more interesting green plastic items

The title comes from the first line of a classic Roy Ayers record called

as the place to find smoothed-over pieces of petrified black coal

Another Little Piece of My Heart Size:Small (8 x 8 in) the snow fence that linesWith no outline to guide me, I worked out a mosaic design with these little pieces of broken plates and bowls, and at some point it resembled the country of Africa. I kept fiddling around until it took on the shape of a heart, at which point the lyric to Erma Franklin's (and later, Janis Joplin's) hit song "Piece of My Heart" came to mind. Archival quality printing on a sturdy, lightweight, recycled aluminum panel. Aluminum prints are waterproof and