A circular object in various brown tones is suspended in the centre of a colourless block of acrylic resin. The inner shape is made from segmental layers of wood taken from the interior of a beech tree that was once inhabited by a woodpecker. Like all living things, the tree dies and is reborn, representing the circle of life.

Length 21 cm
Width 15 cm
Height 30 cm

A piece of cherry wood has been sculpted, polished and its heart carved out. The interior space was then filled with colourless resin, with a piece of bark from the same tree rolled up and suspended within it. The bark, like skin marked by time, tells the tree’s story.

Length 38 cm
Width 30 cm
Height 17 cm

This circular sculpture was created out of oak and assembled using wooden pegs in the way old timber structures were traditionally made. In its centre is a second circle composed of the leaves of another tree and enclosed in colourless resin.

Length 42 cm
Width 42 cm
Height 13 cm

Expansion I is a sculpture made from the cross section an oak tree shaped with a chainsaw, The form, set on a granite pedestal, is held together by thin wood connections and evokes the cosmic expansion, as well as the notion of a black hole.

Length 60 cm
Width 60 cm
Height 15 cm

This bronze sculpture was made in a plaster mould shaped around the bark of an oak tree. Through the sculpture Katarzyna’s intention is to query our position in the universe, in the natural environment and our origins.

Length 40 cm
Width 22 cm
Height 15 cm