I made a few of these creatures inspired by an exhibition I was involved in. All the artists found something to inspire them from the pages of “Landfall” editions.

I chose the short story “A Whale Sunday” by Kerry Louise Harrison. Her description of crawling inside a macrocarpa hedge took me straight back to my childhood, where I have spent a bit of time crawling around in macrocarpa hedges.

“We vaulted up the sand dunes to the hole in the macrocarpa hedge. Inside we crawled. It was my grandmother’s hedge and it smelt of dark green forest, held within it whole armies of bloodied men and the odd gnarled creature.”

Wow! Magic writing, drawing pictures in my mind.

So what do I do with a few large, creepy-looking tree monsters after the show? I can’t sit them in the middle of the lounge, they’d get me tangled up every time I walked by, not to mention blocking the view of the TV.

So I took them on a trip, got tangled up in a lot of branches, tripped over a few times and took some photos.

*Landfall Autumn 1994 (187) page 120