Old Man Tree Face Bird Bath

An old man's face carved into the tree trunk — not a monster, but a forest spirit. The kind of figure that appears in European folklore as the guardian of the woods, watching from the bark. At 23.6" tall, the wrinkles, eyes, and expression are cast directly into the fiber-reinforced concrete, hand-painted, and sealed. Placed beneath a tree or in a shaded garden corner, it has the quality of something that grew there rather than something that was placed there.

Of all the designs in this collection, this one has the strongest narrative. It's not an animal, not a floral motif — it's a character with a story behind it. The kind of piece that makes a garden feel like it has a personality rather than just a collection of plants and objects.