The base of this sculpture is a three
and one-half inch diameter white oak log. It is a golden brown color
sanded to six hundred grit paper, oiled and waxed. It shows the
long variegation cell structure of the nutrient carrying vascular
cambium layer. On the end you can see the annual rings of the trees
life. Looking from the top view the limb is an L shape with a near
ninety-degree angle. One leg of the L is 16 inches and the other
10 inches. The two ends of the log just touch the ground at a single
point on the near circular end. Then they both arch up about 2 inches
and then touch the ground at the ninety-degree corner. Positioned
along the top of the log from one end to the other is a random pattern
line of natural highly finished one and three eights inch antique
pine cubes. The cubes are sitting two and one quarter inches above
the log, attached to the top side of the log with one quarter inch
red dowels. It is easy to see that the pine cubes are all cut from
the same piece of wood because of its distinctive grain pattern
that divides the cube in half diagonally on the ends. This pattern
makes one half striped yellow and orange, and the other half red
and orange. It is easy to see that the pieces are placed in the
order they were cut.
If we were not bumps on a log
we would realize how much we have in common.
For a more detailed description of this sculpture
please contact hank@chronicart.net.
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