Sentiment Card: May you find strength, beauty and peace each day.

Willow Tree is an intimate, personal line of figurative sculptures representing qualities and sentiments that help us feel close to others, heal wounds, or treasure relationships to living things. Artist Susan Lordi hand-carves each original piece with this thought in mind. Her figures continue to evolve as she identifies emotions so important for us to convey, and renders them in simple, pure gestures.

Inspiration for this piece, from the artist: "This is the first Willow Tree piece featuring carved elements on the figure’s dress. The bas-relief tree is a metaphor for the qualities of strength, beauty and peace, and finding them within ourselves each day. The prayer is one of hope and healing; about living in the moment. The title is as much a prayer as the sentiment. The tree can be a symbol of anything that is centering and inspirational. Trees are grounding — a connection to that which sustains us. It could also reference the Tree of Life; a universal symbol in many different religions."