Sculpture assignment: This mixing of ideas which I mentioned in my last post --it got me thinking about the ancient Greek centaur: "any of a race of creatures fabled to be half man and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly" (Webster) Centaurs gave us centuries of fodder for mystique. The Greeks were not the first at this: look at the Egyptian Sphinx.

But so far these "mixed creatures" have most often been creatures of terror and power. My own idea is this: what would happen if I put a cute happy puppy face on top of a traditionally fearful creature such as a dinosaur? This thematic contrast and this "juxtapostion" (page 310 in Design Basics Index by Jim Krause) might also hit the viewer with a sense of curiousity, wonder and mystique.