sending...The Maple Queen. She aligns with Herne in the life-cycle known as the seasons of the forest. She directs renewal, growth, withdrawal, and return; those processes that occur in every walk of life. Those processes that are life.
“Maple Queen” is one of Marty’s stoneware and wood sculptures. The stoneware is high-fired, hand formed, and hand painted. Colorful leaves of the Kisers’ maple tree inspired both the leaf shapes and the queen’s crown colors.
The solid maple base was recycled from a found, discarded futon frame Marty spotted while he and Dauna were helping one of her colleagues move out of an apartment. They all agreed that such beautiful wood had to become something artistic! Marty created the mask in 2009 and over the next several months he fashioned the body of the sculpture. Oak dowels and glue became the main means he used for fastening the base pieces together. Oak dowels also separate the two tiers of the base.
No metal was harmed in the making of this sculpture.
Height 29″; Base: 11.5″ square; Weight ~12 pounds
This sculpture is for sale in our Gallery Shoppe.
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