“We are fully open
Taste the fullness
Of exchange, of sharing
A mirror without a veil.”
The time of a branch
DESCRIPTION
Massive bronze sculpture.
Blue/grey patina for the tree.
Brut bronze finish for the birds.
Unique piece.
The finish of all my sculptures can be customised: raw bronze, semi-patinated or fully patinated (verdigris / lagoon blue / phtalo blue / red / black).
DIMENSIONS
H x P x L: 45 cm x 25 cm x 15 cm
YEAR OF CREATION
2026
INSPIRATION
Le Temps d’une Branche captures this fragile moment where two presences appear, each at their end, linked by a single tree without ever truly touching each other. It is not the physical proximity that unites them, but the shared moment of a suspended flight, the same point of anchorage — the same branch, the same breath of time passing by.
This work speaks of the patience of connection, of all that weaves quietly between two beings who do not need to be together to feel connected. Each of the two birds looks in its own direction, carried by its own attention to the world, and yet their simultaneous presence on this same tree tells a common story—the story of two trajectories that intersect for a moment of pause, before each one takes off again.
Beyond this symbolic dimension, this work is also a tribute to the birds themselves, and to the essential place they occupy in the balance of life. Pollinators, seed dispersers, natural regulators of insects, sentinels of the health of our ecosystems — birds are among the first witnesses of the disruptions of our planet, and their decline, today a concern worldwide, is a sign that we can no longer ignore. Representing them in bronze is also making them visible in another way, taking the time to stop and consider a presence that is all too often overlooked without being truly seen, and reminding us of the urgency of protecting them for future generations.
The tree itself, stripped bare and almost winterlike, becomes the neutral place where this encounter becomes possible: a common base without which neither of the two birds could perch. It reminds us that every bond, like every ecosystem, needs a place to settle and regenerate.
This piece extends my research on the link and presence in the moment, at the heart of a contemporary semi-figurative and abstract sculpture approach that I have been developing for more than thirty years.
Made of bronze using the traditional lost-wax technique, the tree is given a green patina obtained through a chemical reaction at high temperature, while the two birds retain the natural shade of the raw bronze.
Sculpture available for sale — workshop of Liselotte Andersen, bronze sculptor in Aix-en-Provence, France.
