birch trees

The beauty of a crisp autumn day, leaves crackling underfoot, whistling wind.... collecting fallen birch bark, I think of how these magnificent trees survive and thrive and how their life cycle parallels ours.

As trees in a forest steadily evolve and age, affected by time and chance events, so do each one of us.  I use the aging of trees as a metaphor to confront and understand how I live the cycles of my life.

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birch 'autumn'handmade felt, mixed media43 x 11 x19

birch 'autumn'

handmade felt, mixed media

43 x 11 x19

birch trio 'autumn'handmade felt, mixed media54 x 17 x17

birch trio 'autumn'

handmade felt, mixed media

54 x 17 x17

birch 'summer'handmade felt, mixed media42 x4 x4

birch 'summer'

handmade felt, mixed media

42 x4 x4

birch trio 'winter'handmade felt, mixed media46 x15 x15 

birch trio 'winter'

handmade felt, mixed media

46 x15 x15