Creature of Habit 1987 Josefa Vaughan Vaughan wove strips of aluminum offset lithography plates into the roots and knots of a large redwood tree which were exposed along the wall of an old logging trail. The weaving accentuates the found natural forms which evoke the androgynous figure(s) of Creature of Habit. The title is a direct quote from the printed text one can still read on the plates which had evidently been used by a commercial printer to produce life insurance advertising and geophysical surveys. As the tree has grown, since 1987 when Vaughan first made this sculpture, the aluminum plates have offered asurprising resistance to the natural absorption by the living wood. As the sculpture ages, baby redwoods constantly sprout and whither at the tumescent tip of the figure's phallus.