Animal Metal Sculptures

Tokyo-based sculptor Taiichiro Yoshida makes sculptures from the ancestral technique of hot metal. Often, he represents animals such as birds, rabbits and monkeys. What composes his animals, and makes his work poetical, is that the metal is turned into little flowers to shape the animal. From copper and silver, he carves the feather of each bird, creating a link between his materials and nature.

Wistman’s Wood National Nature Reserve

Wistman’s Wood is a small, remote, ancient woodland area on Dartmoor in England, on the slopes of the West Dart River. Covering just eight acres in area, this isolated woodland is the remnant of an ancient woodland which once covered the moor thousands of years ago, and is one of only three such high-altitude oakwoods remaining in Dartmoor.