"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson a.k.a.: The one that got away. I so loved this piece. An elongated, narrow, shallow vessel, my thought was to detail the surface to just the right level, leaving large areas pristine so as not to deter too much from the elegance of the form itself. There I was, happily working my way from one end of the piece to the other, sculpting, making marks, off in that dreamy la-la land ... flow