Witches’ Broom is a malformation that typically affects the natural structure of trees, causing them to become misshapen, like the human condition scoliosis. Both conditions deviate from the ‘norm’.
The scoliotic spine, a biomechanical deformity, grows into an S-like shape. These works arose from personal reflections of my own experience of spinal fusion surgery and an exploration of archival material on the anatomy of the spine.
Photography, historical texts, artefacts relating to past treatments, and a three-dimensional piece (a model of my back subtracted from a block of wood using a 3D twin camera scanner and a CNC router) are combined.