Carl Boutard

A site specific permanent installation in public space consisting of enlarged fragments of nature. In themselves insignificant these minuscule objects were found and carefully chosen by the artist during strolls along the adjacent Klarälven river. One of the bronze sculptures is situated 25 feet up in an elm tree. It was modelled with maple trees cut down while renovating the site. Comissioned by the Municipality of Karlstad, Sweden

The main model for this public art project was created with branches from a christmas tree – more specifically the part of the top branch that is removed to place the star in the tree. Three such branches were turned upside down and leaned against each other. The model was enlarged by the artist using two tonnes of clay before being moulded and cast in bronze. Commissioned by Public Art Agency, Sweden

Four bronze for a permanent public art project curated by Lotta Mossum at Skandionkliniken. Parts of wood were joined end to end representing how periods of a persons life are joined in a chronological order but not always going in a straight progressive line. The sculptures come out of the ground, circumnavigate a tree and kiss one of the other artworks, a lamppost made by the artist David Svensson. Lebenslauf is German for Curriculum Vitae. Commissioned by Akademiska Hus Uppsala.

Logs of massiv Larch were cut, fitted and hung in a Linden tree. A fullscale model of the Linden tree was built in a workshop to make sure the proportions would be accurate. Comissioned by the Bildhauersymposium Heidenheim in cooperation with Forst BW and Uwe Meier Holzbau.