Helios is the most three-dimensional of all the icons, projecting three feet out from its wall mounting. The artist owes fabrication to assistant Tony Atherton who figured out the angles that fitted the separate honeycomb aluminum pieces together.
     Although Helios is named after the Greek sun god who drove his chariot across the sky daily and the cutout forms radiating in the half-circle at the top are, in fact, sun rays, the work was actually inspired by the Chinese opera masks that Lakich saw on her trip to Beijing after her Tokyo exhibition.
     The artist was fascinated by the convoluted designs on the faces of the characters and wanted to stretch her abstract imagination.