Well…It all started for me around 10 years back, when a large
treee stump washed into our river mouth, in front of our house
on the beach one October after some heavy rains!
This has happened many times before in our 20 years of beach living!
But this stump was very different, on inspection I noticed 8 large rocks
trapped inside the roots.
Being a woodworker for 30 years, this special piece really caught my eye. After extracting the root balls with my chainsaw rough in shape, I brought them to my woodshop to start the process of drying and curing them, taking off the excess parts and rotten soft parts.
They all seem to take on a shape of their own.
Some remained very natural and others were transformed into new characters and shapes. Synergy itself is a combination of rocks being trapped in the roots and the bases of trees. We are pretty sure this combination happens all over the world in different forms.
Around 90% of all trees push the rocks away when they grow. Only certain trees will actually absorb the rocks wich happened to be located directly underneath the growing tree. These roots grow either super fast, moving around the rock and keeping it in place or because the roots grow so slowly the rock is not pushed away. Some of the trees that we know for sure are the Almond tree, the Cedar tree, the Arbutess just to name a few, there are many different types of exotic hard and softwoods. There is a mystery surrounding this natural form of art. We call Synergy!!
To me the wood represents the people of this planet and the rock is more the earth and together its’s all about living in balance with nature on harmony.
There trees float in from all over the world and fall in these rivers of Costa Rica travelling thousands of miles, each one is very unique and one of a kind, impossible to duplicate or be copied by anyone. To me they are true forms of natural art! I hope you enjoy looking at them, as much as I enjoy exposing their inner beauty!!

One world, one love nature first!