‘I found it appropriate at this time to create a Winterwork to be Christmassy.  Under the Wood Talks inspiration, to create a pure, natural and original botanical design -  with highly organic textural surfaces, with no commercial kitsch.

The piece will be a Christmas tree, an asymmetrical one with idea of various contrasts. 

In ancient Roman religion and myth, JANUS is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames and endings.  He is usually depicted as having two faces – he looks to the future and to the past.  It is conventionally thought that the month of January is named for JANUS. 

We know the Janus head with the 2 faces, from history and figure of significance in Art.  Our times are so controversial, the world is experiencing contrast of situations.  Lets express a work which is full of symbolism, with deep Roots, also showing ‘light green and fruit’.  The 2 faces are not between good and bad, they are between various contrasts – a theme hopefully in between us, to create tensions and expression of feeling.  It can even be very much full of symbolic signs and impacts.’

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