Lizzie Thompson / Petersburg Pilot
Davidson used balsa wood to give her pieces a three dimensional quality. She says the white queen is one of her favorite pieces "because I wanted a snarling looking lady. I did. I wanted a lady who looked like she was in a bad mood, so I went to the mirror and I made a kind of a funny, funny face and then I put that on her. And then I thought, 'now she needs a wart' – so that's what that black thing is on her nose. It's a wart."
