STORY OF A SCULPTURE

THE WISDOM OF WINE

It was beautiful, majestic, leafy,
standing there, beside its twin.
Then came the ice storm...
Nature so beautiful is sometimes very cruel.
Under such an ice load, too many branches broke.
It had to be cut down.
But we left the trunk in place,
Thinking that it may come back to life, since it still had its roots.
But nothing happened.
Capricious nature sometimes works in mysterious ways.

Then came the artist...
The eye sees, but the heart knows.

And the artist's eye and heart saw a second life
in this trunk.
A few photographs, a few sketches drawn on a winter night... Then, all we had to do was wait for spring.
Mild spring! Nature comes back to life. And the trunk begins to live again under the loving and skillful hands of the sculptor.
With time, like the tree that feeds its buds and transforms them into leafs, the trunk takes a new shape.
A neck, a nose, that is a first step, a face is appearing.

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Ah!
And since this trunk lives in the middle of a vineyard...
 


This is how
"The Wisdom of Wine"!
is born

Louis-Pierre and Jean-Philippe were happy to lend me a hand, especially during the finishing phase of the Wisdom of Wine.
It is there, majestic, as a Queen, and it watches...
(Poem by Lucie St-Pierre - August 2002)
After inspection, Maya decided that it was nice work!!!
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