A new day is dawning. A large, red plastic “O” inset with a hand-cut and -painted crowing rooster is the centerpiece. I placed hand-cut and -painted sheet metal stars on copper wire springs around the rooster to add dimension and a bit of movement. Above the rooster, I added the phrase “Top O’ The Morning” in plastic letters to emphasize the piece’s playful nature. Brightly colored plastic bottle and jar caps fill the sky as light rising, accompanied by streaks of dawn suggested by painted strips of canvas. I chose a 1” wire mesh as my canvas to keep the piece lightweight, allow me to suspend the caps and canvas strips, and to allow a sense of open sky for the bright colors to move through. In depicting the beginning of a new day, centering the rooster in the “O” was a reference to the MGM logo with its roaring lion that appears at the beginning of each film.