A much loved maple tree, growing on the shore of Lake Washington in Seattle, had been losing branches and had to be taken down. Before long only a twenty foot tree stump remained.
Some of the shapes in the trunk suggested a human form and so began the process of bringing it out. First a scafford was constructed, complete with a tarp to keep off the rain, and then the bark was removed. Now the carving began and a bit at a time the suggestive shapes began to reveal the hidden form of a woman...
Mother Nature Revealed
artist: Stanley Rill