I often think the most creative things are the ones that are in front of us all the time, we are so familiar with them we don’t see them. I am learning that about photography all of the time. My friend Rod Wilson loves wood, and he caresses it like a lover and sees things in it that I would never see – the stories of trees and their wounds and lives and illnesses and strengths. He turns these plans into beautiful sculptures.

Lots of people have pointed out that the greatest art is in nature, I am grateful to have my eyes opened to the stories of trees, I will see them differently from now on, and  am eager to see what Rod eventually does with this wood when it is seasoned and aged.