I’d been collecting old and new wooden spoons for years, imagining faces carved on their undersides. Studying African and Polynesian masks, I tried to get a feel for how they were constructed. Some were carved and some were built by adding details. Instead of cutting into the spoons, which were often made of hard wood and difficult to carve, I decided to add rather than subtract. I gathered beads, shells, strips of palm bark, buttons, sea glass, found plastic objects, and spiraled strips of aluminum trimmed from another project. Each creature evolved without plan as I added pieces that helped make a face. I mounted the spoons on a piece of rusted wire mesh, adding wood and wire posts to help them float. I added a piece of found wood with a stick-like figure stenciled on it as a visual anchor.