Snow Tree Ball

I have been reading sculpture books I got out the ECA library. Inspired by David Nash, Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy, since last Friday I have been working on my own stick scuplture in my garden. I have been trying to construc a ball or sphere from sticks which came from a tree in my garden which split in two under the weight of the heavy snow last winter. It proved to be trickier than I thought as the sticks are quite dry and so snapped easily, making it difficult to achieve much bending.

Anyway, today I took some photos of my "sphere" as it was today, in situ in the garden and with Blackford Hill viewed behind it. The large twisty stick is from an old gorse bush which was being chopped down to clear a new path on Blackford Hill by the rangers last winter.