I love a quote from the medieval mystic Mechtild of Magdeberg in which she talks of seeing a vision of "...a woman, clothed with the sun...". I started thinking about this as an image, and it wasn't very far from there to a woman clothed with a sun...flower!

This piece is carved from a redwood 4x4 post scrap, decorated with acrylic paint and her hair is curly mohair. About 12"H x 4"W x 4"D, c. 2001, Luna Rivera