Hello
Nancy
My inspiration began in my garden
gazing at the trees. I was struck by the
thought of how a tiny sapling not ¼ in diameter grows into such a large tree now 9 inches
around.
I began to picture the tree made up of many
saplings bundled together.. So I began with copper wire and copper covered
colored wire and began to weave, on the way to becoming a tree that should fit
into one of the long skinny spots we used this month I got the feel and rhythm
of Africa. I had several found and created objects I was going to add to create
my version of the Baobab Tree. One was a piece of my fused glass that I had
beaded around that symbolized the setting sun and the other a double elephant
bead I added at the bottom to show the size of the tree.
But as many of my projects do they morphed
into a different idea.
The piece I was going to use for the sun
became the Summer Queen’s head the woven tree her body and the elephants under
her protection.
I had a great time torching the ends of the wires
that I used as branches and roots and got some great color in the entire piece.
The slimmer section I added a shade
lighter sky blue embossed paper and added from my stash 3 glass leaves to
enhance and add to my tree theme. They reminded me of the giant leaves you
would always see in Tarzan movies as the natives used them to fan or crawl under
to cool off from the hot African sun.
Can you hear the drums throbbing in the
distance waiting for the twilight and the dancing to begin????
Peg
