lever would memorialize both health and communication to the spirit world beneath. There beyond the door,
the snail spout could find its home, peaceful and quiet.
If I were to give one Guerin trophy gift to a friend, it would
be the thoroughly Renaissance gilt shell dish which rests
on its own base. Conventionally applicable as the home
of exquisite soaps, I see it, also, as a receptacle for everything from Stowaway Sweets, to loose change, to
strawberries and cherries. This shell personifies in its
fine detail and proportion the best representation of an
object, which since antiquity has been synonymous with
life, endurance and rebirth.
HYLAND
