I’ve got lots of strange little trinkets and such that I’ve found here and there, and some of them make their way into my paper cuttings.. I was sitting on my couch staring at a large stuffed donkey statue (can statues be plush?) that I bought at an antique store half a block from my house.. At least, the owner told me it was a donkey, or in his words ‘a burro, an old one, handmade in a small village in Mexico’ — he said he had picked it up at a museum that was selling it’s inventory and gave it to me for $20 (after I didn’t want to buy it for $30).. Turns out it’s not a donkey at all. It’s some sort of oxen likely made in India (that guy had a story about every object in there. Entertaining at least!). The more I look at it, it probably came from World Market and got dirty and worn in somebody’s storage. But I still like it, and I still like to think of it as a donkey, and while I was looking at it, I thought I should make a paper cutting of a donkey.. and then I realized it would only be complete with birds in 10 gallon hats riding on its back. Finished paper cutting to come.