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Willow Tree was introduced in January 2000 with
one figurine, 15 angels, and the Nativity. The line has grown to
encompass those sentiments that we most want to express. To our
friends, to our family, to our children's teachers, to those
near and dear, to those far and infrequent.
The original inspiration for Willow Tree still
holds true today: Willow Tree is an intimate, personal line of
figurative sculptures representing qualities and sentiments that
help us feel close to others, heal wounds, or treasure
relationships to living things. Artist Susan Lordi hand-carves
each original piece with this thought in mind. Her figures
continue to evolve as she identifies emotions so important for
us to convey, and renders them in simple, pure gestures. These
art forms beautifully express love, closeness, healing, courage,
hope...all the emotions of a life well lived.
The name Willow Tree was chosen to symbolize that
which is gestural and beckoning. The figures are columnar in
design, like a tree, and often carry natural objects or animals
as metaphors for human virtues or qualities...rosemary for
remembrance, a bird for healing, flowers for beauty.
The sculptures are rendered so as to suggest
elegance, simplicity, peace and serenity. Forms reveal their
expressions through body gestures only...a tilt of the head,
placement of the hands, a turn of the body. Emotions are left to
the viewer to discern, which makes them personal and powerful.
Willow Tree is an understated line that speaks in
a compelling and powerful way. |
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