Wooden Stones
These sculptures use natural materials to visually represent stone. Clay is shaped and hardens, while wood is carved into its form. The latter exemplifies the death of a living substance—the tree—to represent that which never had life: the stone. Or, to put it another way, the work illustrates the sharing of one material's life with an object which lacked it from its beginning.
Is the artwork stone since that is what it resembles, or is it wood due to its material composition? In such a case, neither is fully complete, with both stone and wood occupying equal opposites of existence. The wood has lost the life it once possessed, while stone is symbolically granted the life it never had. Together, they merge into one form through the giving of life from the donor, which is shared with the receiver.
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These have flat bottom sides to allow for wall mounting.