When I was attending Central High School in 1964, in Muncie, Indiana, my Art Class teacher, who I can't remember his name, assigned a project using bees wax, lead, and plaster. We would form a figure using bee's wax. We could make anything we wanted.

   I chose to make a statue like the famous statue "The Thinker" but instead of holding his head with his hand, I put a book in his hand like he was reading. That way after the project would be completed, I would call it "The Reader" rather than "The Thinker."

   After forming my statue, I then suspended the wax figure in a large can filled with plaster. After allowing it to dry, my can was then put in a fire oven to burn out all of the wax inside. Then the plaster, without the wax, was filled with lead that was melted in the classroom and poured into the hollowed plaster.

   After letting the lead solidify, the plaster was then knocked off the figure and revealing the statue in solid form.

   While creating my figure, I had made the base of it solid with wax, which was the big rock at the bottom, I didn't make it hollow. So, a lot of lead was used to fill it. The teacher stopped pouring the lead thinking it was using too much lead.

    I then knocked off the plaster revealing that the lead was filled mostly to the top of the statue but left its head only half done. I then labled my statue as the "Level-headed Reader."

    I chose to use this image as the identifying Colophon on all books and literary works published by Eden Publishing, and for Copyright protection.