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.
"I try to keep the interpretation of Willow Tree open. I hope this makes it more personal, and allows the viewer to decide its meaning." Susan Lordi
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.
2012 Willow Tree Platinum Dealer