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Cherry

Tree of Life (from the Bible) the tree in the Garden of Eden bearing fruit which gave eternal life (Gen. 3:22-24).

The Tree of Life Gustav Klimt 1905 [1]

Celtic Tree of Life Jen Delyth [2]

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/nature-environment/natural-history/tree-lif e

‘The Celtic Tree Calendar is a calendar with thirteen lunar divisions. Most contemporary Pagans use fixed dates for each “month”, rather than following the waxing and waning lunar cycle. If this was done, eventually the calendar would fall out of sync with the Gregorian year, because some calendar years have 12 full moons and others have 13. The modern tree calendar is based on a concept that letters in the ancient Celtic Ogham alphabet corresponded to a tree.’ [3]

http://www.woodfinder.com/woods/white_ash.php

Holly [4]

Ash [5]

I want to use different types of wood inspired by the Celtic tree calendar. The tree calendar in the book I was looking at varied slightly from others but it is my mum’s book and I feel like that is an important element of my work because one of the inspirations for my piece is family; specifically me, my mum and my gran, three generations of women. The tree calender also represents the changing seasons and the cycle of life.

Trees are often used to represent life and the network of twisting branches can be likened to the network of veins in our bodies.

I have collected all thirteen types of wood, selected pieces with interesting grains and colours and sanded them off to be smooth and tactile.