Tree trunks and branches line the walls of Ralph Tikerpae's studio, where they sit for years waiting to reveal their stories.
One plank of wood has been whittled into a wide-eyed girl swimming, another has become a child clutching a backyard chicken and others find new lives as mermaids.
Tikerpae, a sculptor and painter based in Wyalong, NSW, salvages wood otherwise destined for landfill and let...
