TREE OF LIFE Sculpture

This sculpture can be ordered and needs two months and two weeks (10 weeks) to be cast, fettled and patinated. Patination can be in either dark brown or turquoise. In a kloof, on a farm in the Nuweveld, off the Loxton Road, near Beauford-Wes these trees grow. The first casting stands amongst them. Muses and maidens continue to enchant me. TREE OF LIFE What/who inspired the work? This work is inspired by the concept of the same name, which references the widespread motif popular in the religious, mythological, and philosophical principles of a variety of cultures. What do you hope its viewers will feel/think? By incorporating nude female figures into the tree, I would like viewers to consider women’s intricate connection to the making and sustaining of life. Indeed, I render the women as inextricably linked to the trunk, barely discernable from the bark itself. The extended tree branches, some morphing from the figures’ arms and hair, function as a kind of headpiece, ennobling the women for their essential role in the evolutionary process. The visual interconnectedness of the tree and the women duly reminds us, however, that, as natural organisms, they share, not only the force of life, but the fragility of life as well. Why did you choose the medium, subject matter, style? The medium of sculpture enables the piece to be viewed from all vantage points, with no conventional front or back. As such, the sculpture demonstrates a visually powerful silhouette at every turn, in which the women’s soft and feminine anatomy complements the branches’ rigid, expansive structure of positive and negative space. ****************************************** TREE OF LIFE What/who inspired the work? This work is inspired by the concept of the same name, which references the widespread motif popular in the religious, mythological, and philosophical principles of a variety of cultures. What do you hope its viewers will feel/think? By incorporating nude female figures into the tree, I would like viewers to consider women’s intricate connection to the making and sustaining of life. Indeed, I render the women as inextricably linked to the trunk, barely discernable from the bark itself. The extended tree branches, some morphing from the figures’ arms and hair, function as a kind of headpiece, ennobling the women for their essential role in the evolutionary process. The visual interconnectedness of the tree and the women duly reminds us, however, that, as natural organisms, they share, not only the force of life, but the fragility of life as well. Why did you choose the medium, subject matter, style? The medium of sculpture enables the piece to be viewed from all vantage points, with no conventional front or back. As such, the sculpture demonstrates a visually powerful silhouette at every turn, in which the women’s soft and feminine anatomy complements the branches’ rigid, expansive structure of positive and negative space.

Sculpture:Bronze on Bronze

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 27.6 H x 7.9 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.