ebb & Flow

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Bronze
20”L x 8”W x 20”H
Colorado and much of the west experienced the destruction of our forests as a result of a pine beetle infestation. Many people viewed it as a terrible death but I see it as a rejuvenation. The beetles have just done what fire used to do before we started to control it. The forests look terrible with most of the evergreen trees turning red-brown but in less than five years I have seen new young trees coming up and groves of aspens replacing the pines. This piece is an ode to life cycles and the pine beetle. The stand is made from beetle-killed pine. The beetles leave very interesting patterns in the wood and deposit a fungus which causes the blue stain in the wood.