Surrounded by silvered wooden cubes, the Pink Lady looks forward to the future and to the human world of the house before her, as if summoned to life from the timber pile. German artist Michaela Gräper envisioned this transformation when she carved the figure from a single wooden block during her artist’s residency at Wildbrumby in 2013.

The sculpture takes its name from the deep rose-pink oil pigment applied to the figure’s surface. Yet, stationed beneath a new grove of Pink Lady apple trees, it is easy to picture her drinking a snifter of Pink Lady Schnapps.

Gräper carved the figure using a chainsaw, then finished the final, finer details by hand, using wood carving tools. Squaring-off the other blocks, she created the cubes as companions for the figure, emphasizing the Pink Lady’s origin in a single wooden block and suggesting potential pedestals for us to inhabit ourselves. Please sit and contemplate with the lady.