Olive wood (Olea europaea) with stainless steel and epoxy inlays.
30 lbs. 30” x 30” x 3”
Tree of Life recalls the first architecture of growth. Carved from olive wood, the form bears the record of age and resilience in its dense grain and fractured voids, a material history shaped by pressure, drought, and persistence.
Green resin flows through the work like sap reborn, tracing channels where life once moved and now moves again. It suggests circulation and renewal—nutrients redirected through injury, vitality reasserted through repair. These luminous passages do not conceal loss; they acknowledge it, transforming absence into conduit. Embedded spheres glint across the surface like dormant seeds of creation —condensed moments where energy gathers before emergence. Polished and reflective, the spheres mirror their surroundings, binding environment and observer into the work and emphasizing life as a system of interdependence rather than isolation.
Both organism and artifact, the sculpture stands as an act of reassembly. What was once discarded is reorganized into a new equilibrium, where growth continues not by returning to an original state, but by adapting forward. Tree of Life affirms persistence as a creative force—life enduring through transformation, memory carried not despite fracture, but because of it.
Olive wood (Olea europaea) with stainless steel and epoxy inlays.
30 lbs. 30” x 30” x 3”
Tree of Life recalls the first architecture of growth. Carved from olive wood, the form bears the record of age and resilience in its dense grain and fractured voids, a material history shaped by pressure, drought, and persistence.
Green resin flows through the work like sap reborn, tracing channels where life once moved and now moves again. It suggests circulation and renewal—nutrients redirected through injury, vitality reasserted through repair. These luminous passages do not conceal loss; they acknowledge it, transforming absence into conduit. Embedded spheres glint across the surface like dormant seeds of creation —condensed moments where energy gathers before emergence. Polished and reflective, the spheres mirror their surroundings, binding environment and observer into the work and emphasizing life as a system of interdependence rather than isolation.
Both organism and artifact, the sculpture stands as an act of reassembly. What was once discarded is reorganized into a new equilibrium, where growth continues not by returning to an original state, but by adapting forward. Tree of Life affirms persistence as a creative force—life enduring through transformation, memory carried not despite fracture, but because of it.
