In the old growth forest I have been visiting I have become quite taken with the lower branches of cedars and firs that are covered with lichen. The moss covering creates forms that dominiate their space. Using the white of aluminum focuses attention on the forms and the space they create rather than what they are.

8' tall x 32" x 32" all aluminum with steel stand.

A medium sized artist is included for scale.

Prickerly, susupended, rough, unfriendly, offputing. This is a branch of a Sitka spruce sketched in Juneau, Alaska. I have hundreds of sketches of spruce branches. This sculpture looks at the jagged untouchable needles and the lichen hanging from the branches. 36" x 36"

White Pass, at the Canadian border near Sagaway, Alsaska. This is literally the top of a the mountains, at tree line; very cold, windy and generally tough living most of the year with stunted spruce, squashed blue berry bushes, acres of lichen. Glacial shapes everywhere.

Wood, steel, and patina brass. 24' x 24"

I spent about two weeks in Alaska and the Yukon sketching stumps of Spruce trees. The twisted, white forms surrounded by low bush cranberry made them striking sculptural features of the tundra.

Spruce Stump: 24" diameter, 14" high, painted wood, painted aluminum , brass wool