Jean Kadmon began sculpting when she was turning out Expressionist paintings and etchings, and someone brought her a bucket of clay. Because she had watched Gertrud Kraus, her former landlady in Ein Hod, welding pieces of junk into sculptures, Kadmon put junk, from the lot out her window, into the clay she would be firing. However, a few larger ceramic pieces were influenced by shrines seen on a backpacking journey to Luxor in Egypt and to Abu Sembel on Lake Nasser. Inside a shrine would be another shrine, and then another shrine inside it until gods and Pharoah would appear.