Norman Epp "Mother Tree - Fence Line Conversation"

Norman Epp whose artwork that you are interacting with has been sculpting for over half a century.  This sculpture, Mother Tree Fence-line Conversation, is an excellent expression of how art comes into being through Norman’s creative process.

Collaborative creation within Nature: A farmer nailed a barbed wire fence-line to a tree; after 80 years of what became a Mother Tree’s interaction with that intrusion, an aesthetically aware great grandson now operating the farm, alerted a sculptor to the uniquely fascinating forms within that tree trunk.  The resulting naturally generated expression could not have taken place without each one of these active participants operating within Earth’s creative evolutionary process.

During many weeks of interactive collaboration with that tree / fence-line’s magnificent formal expression; it became evident to Norman that that Mother Tree’s sensual attributes were sublimely demonstrating the many nuanced intricate ways in which bordering fences may be transformed into lines: how borders need not become separations between entities, but, how their lines can exemplify how individual elements, which determine the cohesive character of an intertwined cooperative interaction, may invigorate oneness as an expression of integrated beauty within life’s continuum.