Big Appetite

Bronze sculpture of boy reading on stacks of books

I consider it a great accomplishment if I can read one or two novels a year. In the meantime my wife Lanea devours book after book like there’s no tomorrow. She often has five or six going at the same time! “Big Appetite” is about that unquenchable quest for knowledge. So many books… so little time… someday?!

This voracious young boy sits on top of a stack of books, avidly reading the one in his hands. He has a huge appetite for even more. Of course, he has placed one on top of his head, anticipating the possibility of transferring knowledge through osmosis! There are many other stacks of books around him, implying that he has an insatiable hunger for knowledge, for exploration, for whatever….