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Family Freedom SignatureMT | 25 Family Originally from South Korea, Tyler was placed in an orphanage where she was adopted and raised on an Oregon ranch. "e biggest gi I've ever received was geing a family. My parents are amazing. Without the love of my family, I would not be where I am today." Art has been a part of Tyler's life since the beginning. "I started creating art when I first held a crayon and making sculptures out of all kinds of materials (plastic, cardboard, paper, tin, sticks, clay, rocks, metal, etc.) over 30 years ago when I was a very lile girl," she says. Today, with the loving support of her husband and son, Tyler continues to breathe life into seemingly inanimate objects giving them new-found purpose. Freedom Life in Oregon meant being surrounded by horses. And through it all, it has been horses (a symbolic representation of freedom in ancient Korean history) that most oen surface in Tyler's work. Tyler says, "Horses are energy to me. ey make themselves." Collecting sagebrush pieces to create a horse takes time, but Tyler enjoys the freedom and excitement of the search. "It can take as lile as a week or up to years to find all the intricate parts for the entire sculptures, but oen the life size sculptures reveal themselves the fastest." How does she take scraggly branches, bark, logs and stumps and piece them together in a way that makes them come alive with movement? "Most of the pieces used in the finished form have been alive or feel alive. ey create the feeling of life, vitality, personality, movement, gesture, and soul. Regardless of the original materials and position, the horses possess an additional element of motion because their manes and tails are swishing, flowing, or windswept," says Tyler. Brenna recently donated this sculpture "Blue Mountain Mustangs" to a cause she believes in. Limited edition bronze horse "Dream Dancer".