Video: From stumps to sculptures! Tommy Craggs
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Humanity as a whole treats nature mercilessly, cripples it, destroys it, turns beauty into ugliness or a bare desert. But there are people who, even in dead nature, find something beautiful and try to show this vision to others. This includes the artist Tommy Craggscreating stump sculpturesleft over from felled or broken trees.
Everyone knows that a sculpture is hidden in every piece of marble, you just need to get it right from there. The same can be said for every tree stump, every fallen trunk in the forest. This is the problem of "extracting" sculptures from these objects and is dealt with by the British artist Tommy Craggs.
Animals, people, mythological creatures - all of them are united by what turns old stumps of Tommy Craggs into them. Moreover, in the process of his creativity, he mainly uses a chainsaw. It is with her that he mainly processes wood, and only at the end he goes a little over his sculptures with a chisel and sandpaper.
However, Craggs does make some pretty, well-detailed figures, a real decoration for the forests in which he creates them. Most of the work of Tommy Craggs can be seen around the cities of Durham and Knaresborough in the north of England. There are several dozen scattered across the local forests and parks.
However, Craggs makes similar wood sculptures all over the world. Sometimes he is even invited by residents and the administration of different settlements, so that Tommy created his masterpieces on their territory.
Of course, the work of Tommy Craggs, for all their undoubted beauty, cannot bring a dead tree back to life. Nevertheless, they make the forest more beautiful, more varied, and more original. At least some kind of compensation for the harm caused to nature by humans.
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