When
a foreign journalist asked permission to record Lakich "in the midst
of the artistic struggle," she replied that he was welcome to film her
drawing. "An idea doesn't spring full grown from my mind. I discover
it in the process of drawing and work it out in re-drawing." The style
to which The Phoenix belongs reproduces the tubular lines and the
shaded aura of the glow. Lakich use many finished drawings as studies for
sculptures; The Phoenix, however, has not yet become three-dimensional.
