Statue, Aurelie

Naked female statue carved in solid wood «sequoia» (without the heart and sapwood) carved on neighborhood. Artwork signed.
Human-sized Statue

History tree in my friend Aurelie

There once was a sequoia, become so great and some damaged by storms, it became dangerous, he should shoot him.

Once ashore, the giant tree (more than 1. 80 M in diameter at the base) was charged to be sold as firewood, 30 euros per stere…
Only the base, too large to be contested at the blade remained there, abandoned on the roadside.

One day a man, an artisan cabinetmaker by trade, bas-relief sculptor Norman, looking for more than 20 years of a large tree, to realize his dream of becoming a sculptor sculpture falls magically on This remains abandoned… And now he starts to dream, to transform this tree into statues.

From the trunk and retrieved for pennies, it will charge two pieces, a scaling more than generous, he will find models to take his measures from nature, and 2 carry statues of naked women, natural size. He still hopes to find another tree, then another… For one day expose his collection to the public.

And my passion for woodworking, I swapped my actions against the privilege of attending various stages of completion of a wooden statue.

I hope one day it will be me who will hold the scissors and cutters, to give eternal life to a dead tree.

Aurelie Z…