Original artwork description:

Tree Genie is an unusual and poetic ethnic sculpture of a being with feminine curves but a slightly asexual face representing a tree genie, and beyond that the wise and benevolent spirit of the forest.

It is made from wild wood found in the forest, gnawed away by nature and the elements, abandoned to its sad fate as dead wild wood, along with fine natural shrub roots.

The serene, sleepy expression on the genie's face expresses the wisdom and ordered intelligence of nature.

This statue belongs to the Ostreïdes series, which expresses the complexity of life in its search for the most appropriate form for survival, as well as the wisdom of the mind applied to the transformation of matter. The series depicts an imaginary world in which life forms from elsewhere evolve, having taken shape and found refuge in dead and abandoned earthly materials: old gnarled vines, broken branches, unearthed tree or shrub roots.

The head is topped with a hairy headdress of skilfully arranged natural shrub roots, while the body has been gouged from the cleaned wood, stripped of its impurities and weaknesses, then completed with surfine wood pulp, stained with acrylic paint and water-soluble oil and then varnished.

Dimensions with base: H 50 x W 20 x D 20 cm

Signed under the wood.

Materials: dead wood found in the forest, natural shrub roots, cellulose, water-soluble oil paint, protective marine varnish, black iron base.

Materials used:

wood surfine cellulose, acrylic paint, varnish,, nepenthes dried urns,

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