sentinel

What is compelling here is the way each element seems to carry its own logic. The tree is expressive, almost gestural, while the tower is rigid and modular, like a machine built for repetition. The padlock hanging from a branch adds a note of absurdity or secrecy—what’s being locked away, and why? The mugs or containers feel like offerings or remnants, as if the tree has been repurposed into a shrine or a scaffold. The whole composition reads like a diagram of coexistence under strain.

This tableau doesn’t shout—it hums. It’s a study in contrast and quiet resistance, where the natural and the constructed are bound together but not reconciled. It could be a metaphor for collaboration, or collapse, or simply the strange beauty of things that don’t quite fit. Either way, it holds its own space in the series—distinct, enigmatic, and deeply tactile.

9" tall, 6" wide, 18" long $