Winter 2001. I stared making a lot of ‘guerrilla’ snow sculptures with my roommate Zach. We were using refrigerator boxes to make snow blocks in the park across the street from our house. Somehow, for First Night 2001, I worked it out so that the Parks and Recreation people would lend me the giant wooden box that they use to make the snow blocks and the people who plow Church Street would fill it with snow using their machines. We luckily got about two feet of snow on the eve of New Year’s eve, making the lack of any contingency plan a moot point.

Jeff Campolli, Paddy Johnson, and Dan Zuchini, who had won the previous state competition, helped with this one. Zach couldn’t help because there was so much snow he had to go plow.
Originally the mouse was just as tall as the cat, but the mouse’s first head fell off after lunch.
I don’t know where or when the cat got that rose in its mouth. And it looks like there are gold coins in its eyes.

By Three a.m. it was destroyed by revelers. Paddy brought me the head of the mouse- the second and final head- at around Four a.m.. It stayed on my porch for most of the winter.

I didn't have any pictures of this one, and I mentioned it to one of my co-workers (I work at the newspaper). She put an ad in the paper and someone sent me this!