

This sculptural tableau reads like a quiet parable of shelter and ingenuity: a towering, burnished trunk rises with the gravity of a monument, crowned by a canopy of overlapping, leaf-like scales that catches light as if preserving it. The tight vertical ascent—stitched and bound with visible fastenings—introduces a human note of repair and persistence, while the small seated figure at the base turns the structure into both refuge and witness, dwarfed by what it has helped sustain. Warm wood tones against cool, metallic greens create a dialogue between the organic and the engineered, suggesting nature not as idyll but as something carefully maintained, defended, and mournfully revered.







