Wooden Animals by Józef swan freshly harvested rye straw in

freshly harvested rye straw in Poland

some threads might be loose

and the reawakening of nature after the dark of winter

The one you keep for generations

Lora Avedian is a London based multidisciplinary artist

Wooden Animals by Józef swan freshly harvested rye straw inWooden dog and stork outside the house always welcome me when I visit Jzef. He lives in a lovely, old house in a rural village in Poland. Jzef is a self taught artist. After working hard all his life as a carpenter and on his farm, he started sculpting various animals using wood he finds in a forest. Stork, chickens, goose, squirrels, hoopoe birds are his favourites. Each animal is unique. Some of them might have pencil or paint marks, rough edges,