"I'm not a traditionalist. I don't really stick with the rules of anything. I
can't follow a recipe in a recipe book. I have to do it my way. So I get the
basic tenets of how things work, you know. If you want to make banana bread you
look at a bunch of recipes and figure out how everything works together and then
you make it however you want to make it."
Richard Whittaker's curiosity was piqued when he chanced upon an assortment of
outsized animal sculptures on the grounds of an elegant home. Not long after,
he sat down for an in-depth interview with the sculptor, Ama Torrance.
