Inca Doves

The inspiration for this image came a few years ago while I was sitting on my deck. I was watching a pair of Inca doves feeding on the ground when one of them flew up into a tree and landed on this large, curved grape vine. I thought at that moment what a good picture it would make to do a pair of doves sitting together on that vine. It took 3 years for me to find the right piece of wood to get the effect I wanted. I did the doves, vine and leaves and the rest of the patterns are the natural grain and spalting. The wood is a very unique spalted maple.