WILLOW TREE COURAGEOUS JOY FIGUREWILLOW TREE COURAGEOUS JOY FIGURE This piece features a figure with darker skin and a natural black hairstyle, with both arms raised overhead, in a dress etched entirely with textile pattern. With this figure, Im celebrating pride in ones heritage how knowing the past gives confidence in the present, and a sense of who we are. Heritage can be expressed by customs or language, or as in this figure, textile patterning. The etchings that cover her are