A branch fell off a street tree near my place narrowly missing my neighbours' car... when it came to having it cut up and taken away they gave me two pieces. It took a long time to find the inspiration that suited the wood... but now the work is being entered in the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival Sculpture exhibition - "Connection"
"We are all stardust formed in the creation nova - so a life flows between the stars in twists and turns and pools and rapids from stardust to stardust."
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| the start was seeing the bridge |
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| and cutting out some of the less sound wood |
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| then the wood started to tell its own story |
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| and there comes a time to see what the oil brings out in the grain |
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and the grain is captivating -
details recording the incidents of the tree's growth |
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more grain... more interplay between
the inner and outer surface of the branch |
