Sixcircles  - carved Elmwood – 1989

Nietzsche talked about the effectiveness of the incomplete, in essence the incomplete presentation of an idea, of a whole philosophy, is sometimes more effective than its exhaustive realisation....Nietzsche’s concept of an art and a philosophy which leaves more for the beholder to do...the ability to move from ‘part-objects’ to ‘whole-objects’ are integrally bound up with the principle that the ‘fragment’ provides a necessary incentive to the psychological subjects imaginary discovery of wholeness.

The paradox of the fragment : it engages what Melanie Klein calls the urge to ‘reparation’ , and so favours the recovery of wholeness. 

The imaginary sixth circle etched as an arc into the surface holds together the five slices of the original tree, reconfigured into this cyclical form.