The sculpture was made out of the woodblock.
It was meant to look something like a figurehead on a ship.
And the ship was meant to look something like the Santa Maria, Columbus' flag ship.
When I cut up the woodblock to make the figurehead,
I was thinking about the ultimate fate of the Santa Maria.
After running ashore in Haiti, she was disasembled and her timbers were used to build a fortress - the first Spanish settlement in the New World.