Jungle 2 (The Interconnected Web)

This carved wooden totem stages a dialogue between raw growth and deliberate memory: the rugged, knot-marked trunk rises like an unedited fragment of forest, while the pedestal’s relief panels crystallize nature into narrative. Warm, honeyed timber catches light across chisel facets, so that shadows behave like underbrush—deepening the animal forms and turning each side into a quiet chapter of encounter. The vertical thrust suggests lineage and ascent, yet the work’s true gravity lies in its tactile archaeology, where living texture and icon-like carving fuse into a meditation on how wilderness is both inhabited and mythologized.