I have brought back the Hidden Sculptures Project for Downtown Frederick for 2026! The Downtown Easter Eggs Project is intended to get my art out there for people to enjoy or pass along - and mainly because I am gathering too many pieces and they simply must go. But if I have more space I can make more stuff, so it’s a win-win. Pay attention when you are around town, they just might be hiding in plain site; if it looks out of place, then maybe it is! There’s no point to art if it doesn’t find itself to someone to enjoy, so please don’t feel guilty “stealing” it!
And please, if you do stumble across one let me know with an e-mail as seen on the tag.
No. 32: The Hoarder
(“Stevie”)
For your consideration is Stevie the Squirrel, our first contestant on the New Downtown Easter Egg Project. Thanks for finding him and taking him home!
Stevie has just found a peanut and he is guarding said peanut with his life as if someone is ready to strip it away from him. My inspiration for Stevie, besides the multitude of voracious squirrels in the backyard who will commit squirrelicide for a peanut, is all those people way back in the pandemic days, the hoarders of - of all things- toilet paper. The irrational hoarding was mind-boggling and I am sure we will see it again. Stevie here turned out well, but alas was cursed with bad stone like the tugboat with the chocolate chip cookie dough stone. Very distracting. so while Stevie turned out well his complexion was a downer. Stevie did a tour at TAG in Downtown Frederick, but unfortunately he was not bought by a visitor, so here he is making his own way.
1/3/2026
Update 1/16/26. Stevie is gone, but no acknowledgment of where he went (sigh). This is the stuff that made me stop last time. I’ll give it a few more tries, but you know the definition of insanity.
1/18 Stevie has been found and has his new home! Thanks Allison!
