Untitled 4 (Creatures Great and Small)

This sculptural tableau stages a quiet procession of carved wooden animals, their simplified profiles and repeating silhouettes turning the work into a rhythmic frieze of companionship and labor. The warm, honeyed grain and visible tool marks preserve the tree’s former life, while the cool metal rod slicing through the figures reads like an axis—part tether, part spine—binding individuality into a shared direction. Set against the soft lawn, the piece feels simultaneously playful and ritualistic, suggesting a meditation on how communities are built: not through perfection, but through joined weight, balance, and trust. The stacked base and deliberate symmetry lend it the gravity of a totem, elevating humble materials into a small monument of collective movement.