"Copper Shamans"

In both his fiction and art, Rothschild has drawn on a lifelong absorption with animals, plants, stones and the ocean. His fiction often deals with early Maine history, particularly the collision between colonists, settlers and the native peoples of Maine. Thoughts of the present sculpture proposal, monumental anthromorphs covered and revealed in the large tides of far downeast Maine, began some twenty years ago when he spent several days on an island in Machais Bay. There, at low tide, slender, horned human figures are seen, incised in the ledge. It was these figures that first gave rise to the possibility of constructing a large public sculpture.

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