In Embryology, the Carnegie Stages are a set of 23 stages used to describe the developmental chronology of a vertebrate from fertilisation to the point it becomes a foetus. When I was researching my embryogenesis work, I came across the early stages of human embryology and was amazed by these intriguingly simple and elegant forms that seem to come more from the canon of sculpture than the messy world of biology. Carnegie stages 6 and 7 remind me of early Greek sculptures from the Cyclades that were highly simplified human figures carved in marble. Carnegie stage 10 resembles the African Masks that were so influential to Picasso and Braque, and all of the ones that inspired me have echoes in modernist and minimalist sculpture of the 20th century. This bronze montage of the five maquettes for the series allows the viewer to pick up and remove each embryo from its mount, allowing it to be held in the palm of your hand.