I've loved these since I first saw them: Kate Clark's Ceremony on display at CSU gallery as part of Animatopoeia: A Most Peculiar (Post Modern) Bestiary, an exhibit curated by Art History major Omid Tavakoli ( here for the artist's website and here for the gallery's ). Other people kept telling me they found these creatures creepy, but of course one of the things I love about sculpture in general is its creepiness . And I didn't find these creepy at all, I thought they were so - Nice. Gentle. Kind. Maybe it's the tilts of their heads, all off a bit to the side, as if in sympathy with their observers. Maybe its their skinny little legs, and hooves like pointed toes, that make them seem so delicate and their stances so precarious. Like this guy, I got up close to peer into their faces and try - but never succeed - in meeting their gazes. Maybe that's what others read as creepiness, the way the creatures seem to draw you in to look, but then