This group of small bronze sculpture and related drawings were made as 3 dimensional studies for larger works when I was interested in trying to invent a simple generic visual language for Public Sculpture. I used a vocabulary of stick figures with celestial motifs and images from nature to try and synthesise an abstract and figurative approach to representation. ‘Crescent’, is a Tree of Life along a pictorial horizon line that includes abstracted representations of generic figures, a house, leaf, the sun, stars, and a ploughed field etc. Many of these images reappear in the other works illustrated here: for example, in ‘Red Riddle’, as a giant red sun in the landscape or in ‘Ascension’ as spiralling hoops of climbing figures.