Art concepts of forest sculptures.
Natural images of birds in roots of fur-trees.

A forest sculpture is one of directions of the applied art and the idea of forest sculptures is natural beauty of spontaneous forms of our surprising and living planet.
When in a forest there are the intricate snags similar to any unknown animals then it is very interesting. It is more interesting to find an art image specially in strange and freakish natural formations of plants.
A forest sculpture is most ancient art on the Earth. You see when there were no tools and skills for processing of materials then the man in the first time has found a root of an old tree which surprisingly reminding image of the man. It was the first act of creativity as a result of which there were first sparks of imagination in consciousness of the man.
Can seem that freakish natural formations are casual but if in images of plants it is possible to guess images of alive essences then it is possible to reflect on a general and uniform origin of life. It is possible to think about reason of plants and about mystical interrelation of plants and animals if forms of fauna are embodied in forms of flora.
When I find art images in roots of old fur-trees (for example the image of a bird with open wings) then I reflect on secrets of life. There was a bird, and then the image of a bird was embodied in a tree, and then I have found a bird hardened in a tree. As if trees adopt images of birds that we people could see incomprehensible continuity of life and could see intelligence of a nature.

A forest sculpture is a many-sided area of art creativity in which realization of various natural images is possible, but it is interesting to me to be engaged in  animalistic images of birds. Likely birds have the most direct associative connection with the forest world of trees. Feature of forest sculptures consists that it is necessary to not change natural forms, but it is possible to correct if it is necessary for more distinct understanding of the found art image and for more exact designation of sculptural forms. Namely the main value of forest sculptures is not fiction of the man but creative potential of the nature which is embodied in the various phenomena of the spiritualized and alive flora. The man can find out beauty of the nature and can show sculptural forms embodied in structure of a tree. If the natural image is found then the artist should reveal this image correctly and to not break the natural plan which incorporated in natural materials. The forest sculpture is the better if less changes are made. Though the artist can correct some forms but nevertheless the forest sculpture is the most interesting in that case when initial natural forms are not changed. It is impossible to use alive trees. In a forest there is much that the forest with pleasure will give people and consequently there is no necessity to break alive birches and fur-trees in vain. Natural images can be found among different dry trees, but I can tell about fur-trees as I find sculptural images of birds in old roots of fur-trees. There is a huge variety of kinds of fur-trees. Can be it seems that fur-trees is one grade of trees but actually different kinds of fur-trees have significant differences. I do such conclusion as I consider old roots and I see that structure of wood is very different at different fur-trees, and therefore if trees have different roots then it means different kinds though appearance and needles (conifer) are similar. However, it is possible to see distinctions of needles and it is possible to see different crones of fur-trees, but bigger distinctions can be seen in various structures of roots. Or it is possible to assume that fur-trees have no different kinds, and distinctions of root systems and distinctions of crones depend on places and grounds on which trees grow, but it is possible to speak that different kinds of fur-trees grow on different grounds. As well many other forest trees grow in different places and on different grounds, and consequently it is necessary to know a forest to find interesting natural materials. Photos show different foreshortenings of the not processed but the washed root of fur-tree.

To find images of birds I search for suitable places in a forest where natural images can be generated in roots of trees.
I find such places in northeast of the Moscow area. The majority of the shown forest sculptures are found in two places which have approximate coordinates: 56°N 38°E. These are small sites of a wood, but each root there comprises an image of a bird.
More often it is beautiful places (fantastic fir forests) where there are many old stubs which there are roots of fur-trees.
Old stubs or roots should not be too mouldering that firm layers of roots were kept, but should be old enough to separate firm layers from mouldering wood (of rotten wood). Namely the old roots should have the certain age.
And also roots should be on the certain ground where firm layers of wood are kept long enough.
In essence a material of the shown wood forest sculptures is the hardened wood which arises in root structures of fur-trees due to inclusion of a wood pitch (resin), and consequently the ground should favor to growth of the certain kinds of fur-trees and for preservation of firm layers of wood.
It is necessary to break old stubs and to turn out from the ground. After that it is necessary to remove mouldering wood and to leave firm root layers which are kept in good condition due to inclusion of pitch.
These firm layers have very intricate forms in which it is possible to see every possible sculptural images.

I hope that the submitted images of fantastic birds will be interesting to your attention!
Look galleries of wood forest sculptures on the central page of this site.
If it seems that the shown sculptural forms in galleries are a lie and actually are cut out from wood then I assure it is the valid forms created by the nature.

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