This wall mounted piece was made as a hall stand for hanging hats and coats on, though form and expression of idea was certainly dominant over function. Time, decay and entropy were the driving feeling and imagery of overgrown buildings were used to express this. The box made from oak was immersed in costic soda which eats into the wood and erodes in the way timber in the sea naturally sculpts. This was then bleached and scrubbed to complete the sea washed, sun bleached look. The intertwining branches are carved from brown oak into the pattern of hawthorn twigs. These I cut from the dead branches on the top of a tree outside High Wycombe. The thorns were shaped from shards of ebony offcuts a flutemaker was throwing out.