The most natural of art: Forest Sprite
November 15, 2008 by Susie Collins
This is art about as natural as you can get.
I put out a request on Twitter for photos of art made from nontoxic materials, and this is by far the most interesting response.
This is “Forest Sprite,” discovered and photographed by Morrie, who lives in SW Western Australia. He calls it a natural sculpture.
“It is actually a piece of bark,” he says, “shed from a karri tree (Eucalyptus diversicolor, in the background) that was caught hanging from a branch as it fell.”
Morrie is a chemical engineer, “the good kind,” he says. Well, he can’t be all bad if he takes walks in forests such as this one and thinks of hanging bark as art.
You can follow Morrie on Twitter here.
really cool! I have seen bark sculpture before, but that was purposely made into the shape of animals & i loved it
I loved that Morrie saw it as art. The composition of the photo is wonderful, too, with the type of tree in the background.