The founder of Nikola-Lenivets, artist Nikolai Polissky, has already completed his third project in Taiwan. The Ivory Tower, or Typhoon, art object was created for the international woodwork exhibition in Taoyuan City.
It took Polissky 19 days and 12 cubic meters of driftwood to work on this piece. The Tower was presented to the public on October 26 in the city park.
The Ivory Tower is a well-known metaphor for moving away from the real world and the problems of our time into the world of creativity. It was this meaning that formed the basis of creation. The second name, "Typhoon", appeared already in the process of work. “We needed a crooked tree,” says the artist. - In Taoyuan, during typhoons on the mountains, along with mudflows, a lot of forest perishes. He was brought along with the stones on the roots, all the material was in the sand - for the first time they encountered such a thing. We processed everything, bleached it, turning it into mammoth tusks. The material naturally folded into a spiral, reinforcing the original image from the sketch. The typhoon helped to take the final shape."
