Local Tutor in ceramicsGlazed Ceramic

My sculpture, Fossil, is a ‘skeleton’ of a tree trunk, constructed in stainless steel. Depicted in a ruined state, the trunk has been ‘broken’ from the top. While Fossil acknowledges architecture through the use of the constructed cross-bracing motif, its primary reference is to the Romantic artists’ use of the solitary ruined tree in the Sublime landscape. The heroic decay of mighty trees is a subject explored by painters and photographers of the mid nineteenth century who were searching for the ‘picturesque’. A solitary, damaged tree stands as evidence of the physical power of the landscape and natural forces such as storms and lightning strikes. It is trying to suggest itself to be an archaeological artifact of the future, a fossil of the future that speaks of how we view the world’s natural resources at this point in time. public art