19/11/2010 Into the Hive - Part 4 (Empty Spaces)

Willow Sphere

This is the first 3D willow structure I have experimented with making. It is very difficult to create a gentle fluidity to the weave, I had to tie and knot the willow on itself or with rush meaning any sweeping line is broken by knots. Willow does not stay ply-able for long after being removed from soaking in water, making knotting and even weaving gently in parts very difficult and often snapped.  
Without beeswax lining the inside the sphere embodies an emptiness, a negative space, however possibly contradictory the ball somehow has more life inside and surrounding it than the 2D beeswax hoop. Natural light bounces through each gap in the weave from one twist of willow to the next, would adding wax remove or add to this quality?