Usually, I will make an important piece like this solely with the expectation that a museum (or serious collector) will buy the work. I totaled up the hours in the Seder plate yesterday - 468 hours (and it still isn't done.) Still need to finish the bottom and make the custom shipping boxes.

Exhibition title is:Trees
for Life: A New Vision for Art, Ecology, and Community.
The Dorothy Saxe Invitational
February 16,2012 – June 3,2012