ARTWORK: The artist, Sheng-Shan Hsu, would like to pay homage to inspiration he received from the Lamaist(Buddhist) religion. The artist, having been frustrated in his attempts to design a flower from a single wire, dreamt of a journey to a simple ancient village in which a Lamaist monk was waving to him. Leading him as an old friend might, the monk brought him to a two-walled thatched hut. Within it, there were numerous handmade artworks. The monk made a simple hand gesture which clarified the technique the artist had been seeking. The artist awoke, overwhelmed and delighted, and mentally rehearsed what the monk in his dream had taught him

Lama Flower and I contains 668 flowers, each one requiring several hours to complete. The number, pronounced in Chinese or Taiwanese, sounds like the expression for very good luck-- succeed all the way. There are several sterling

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