Dinner Under a Willow Tree

Slide 1
The willow tree and its inhabitants.
Slide 2
The snake: dinner for the eagle. The rodent: dinner for the snake.
Slide 3
The willow in its plexiglas case.
Slide 4
The eagle spies his dinner from above.
Slide 5
Just a few of the 8080 hand cut leaves.
Slide 6
Al poses with his willow tree for scale.

"Dinner Under a Willow Tree" is miniature sculpture of a weeping willow tree in a bonsai pot. Dinner because at the top of the tree is an eagle checking out dinner, a green snake. The snake is also checking out dinner, a rodent in her nest under a root of the tree.

This sculpture is in a sealed plexiglas case, 14" x 14" x 16" high. The tree is in a bonsai dish hand carved out of a chunk of walnut. There are 8080 hand cut leaves, 505 leaf branches and it took 1009 hours to create, over 1 year and 4 months. It's available for the price of $20,000.