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By THERESA REYNOLDS

Rappahannock Newa Staff Wilier

Working in the most difficult and demanding of mediums, Natalie Thebaud Lewis has filled her house north of Hint Hill with wild cats and house cats caught in moments of graceful rest, baboons frozen in a tender second at the end of a jungle day, porpoises swimming forever with their sweet, goofy grins.

There are others: an owl petrified with a blank, wise stare; a limestone woman cradling a baby rabbit in her arms; a frog that captures in his slick green soapstone squat everything there is to say about frog-ness.

Natalie Lewis is a sculptor, and to her the transition from dead stone to living form seems natural. Most of her Figures appear at rest, but its not as though they’re

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