Over the past few years The Trees have always been a popular item in my display. I made the trees after being inspired by an image from the Hallowed Haunting Grounds (which is no more). The first tree, was an entry in a contest at Hauntforum.com . He is affectionately called “stumpy” by a few folks on the forum.
I have striven to really focus on a soul being trapped inside the tree as I made them. With the 1st tree it was anguish, the second tree is was almost a stoic angst.
The idea of the trees comes from Canto 13 of Dante’s Inferno “The Wood of the Suicide’s”
“Still in the seventh circle, Dante enters its second compartment, which contains both those who have done violence on their own persons and those who have violently consumed their goods; the first changed into rough and knotted trees whereon the harpies build their nests, the latter chased and turn by black female mastiffs. Among the former, Piero delle Vigne is one who tells him the cause of his having committed suicide, and moreover in what manner the souls are transformed into those trunks.”
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