SIX PLANES ii

 

 

Completed: Feb 2026
Detail/Materials: Found wood, plywood offcuts, ceramic, acrylic paint, and glaze
54 x 29 x 29 cm

Six Planes II, hand-built from found wood, ply offcuts, and ceramics, transforms a psychedelic vision (six rings radiating upward from a tree trunk) into a stylised sculptural form.

The inclusion of wings evokes the angelic archetype, traditionally understood as a bridge between the human and divine realms, whilst the original gold-hued vision is rendered in a saturated yellow. Recurrent motifs (tulips, waterbirds, shapes, moths, and mushrooms) draw from a visual system, operating as symbols within a shifting field of interpretation rather than illustrating a fixed narrative.

By combining playful, highly saturated aesthetics with symbolic structure, the work tests the boundary between aesthetic immediacy and conceptual depth, inviting viewers to go beyond what is immediately visible.

 

a shot of a wooden sculpture that uses the base of found tree stump. It has 6 rings of bright yellow ply and radiating outwards from those rings are various things per layer. The first layer of ceramic moths and mushrooms, white eggs and pink tulips and a white waterbird. The next layer from the bottom has aqua coloured ply leaves and small unglazed ceramic shapes. The top layer has white ply angel wings. The layer below has bright yellow angel ply wings and the next has olive green ply leaves
a close up shot of a wooden sculpture that uses the base of found tree stump. This close up shot shows the bottom of the sculpure. we can see 3 bright yellow plywood layers. Radiating outwards from those rings are various things per layer. The first (bottom) layer has ceramic moths and mushrooms, white eggs and pink tulips and a white waterbird. The next layer from the bottom has aqua coloured ply leaves and small unglazed ceramic shapes.
the top half of a sculpture made out of salavged wood log, the very top lies a white ceramic swan, surrounded by white plywood wings. Below that there are bright yellow plywood wings and below that are olive and aqua plywood leaves
a shot of a wooden sculpture that uses the base of found tree stump. It has 6 rings of bright yellow ply and radiating outwards from those rings are various things per layer. The first layer of ceramic moths and mushrooms, white eggs and pink tulips and a white waterbird. The next layer from the bottom has aqua coloured ply leaves and small unglazed ceramic shapes. The top layer has white ply angel wings. The layer below has bright yellow angel ply wings and the next has olive green ply leaves
the top half of a sculpture made out of salavged wood log, the very top lies a white ceramic swan, surrounded by white plywood wings. Below that there are bright yellow plywood wings and below that are olive and aqua plywood leaves
a close up shot of a wooden sculpture that uses the base of found tree stump. This close up shot shows the bottom of the sculpure. we can see a bright yellow plywood layers. Radiating outwards from those rings are various things per layer. The first (bottom) layer has ceramic moths and mushrooms, white eggs and pink tulips and a white waterbird.