Leo Cohen Pencil Sharpener

"Cut Back" was a group show of site-specific art held in Queen's Wood, Highgate. The theme of the show looked at how forests are cut back to allow for new growth to occur, but in addition to this, alludes to the deforestation; destruction and cutting down of important forests on our planet.'Pencil Sharpener' came from a dialogue Cohen had with his young niece after he happened to briefly mention the potential project to her. Quite soon after this, a bizarre and imaginative idea was conceived. His niece suggested building a dragon at first, which later became a series of animals resurrected (and recycled) from the ruins of the cut down forest in order to defend and fight off the evil spirits who threaten to destroy their habitat.

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