Internationally recognized artist Brent Comber has released his latest sculpture, Pale Shadows, at VanDusen Botanical Garden’s Touch Wood art exhibit in Vancouver.

Through the use of fir to create the sculpture, Comber returns to a primarily antiquated building material.  With large-scale stacked posts, Pale Shadows reintroduces the material back into the landscape – but this time as bold arboreal spires consisting of 10 poles ranging from three to eight feet tall. Comber’s design process with Pale Shadows revisits the history of the use of fir in building design.

In addition to Comber’s latest design, his Nine Sentinels – a circle of nine-inch maple forms – and 60-inch illuminated Shattered Spheres sculptures will be on exhibit.

Curated by Celia Duthie and Nicholas Hunt of the Duthie Gallery on Salt Spring Island, B.C., Touch Wood is a landmark exhibition of more than two dozen wood sculptures and installations by prominent B.C. artists such as Michael Dennis, Alastair Heseltine and Martha Varcoe Sturdy.

The show runs from June 20 through to Sept. 30, 2013.