Sometimes the best trees are made with the oddest colors until they come all together Its a truly a trust the proces until everything is all there.

Four years.

hundreds upon hundreds of hours have gone into trees that I love.

North Idaho artist Morgan McBride is wired.

Wired in the sense of her using strands of aluminum colore jewelry grade wire as a medium coupled with wood, moss, and crystals to create reproduced imitations of bonsai.

distinctive sculptures that resemble the real McCoy.

I love the way the light bounces off of the wire, and it just feels lik it gives it that breath of life, which is something I truly enjoy.

Each one of these pieces are mounted on natural wood, because I feel like it's a wa to bring the life into the piece in high school I took Japanese for a few years with some of my family, and then, in college, my teacher told us we had to make something out of line.

He he looked at us all and I still remember he's like, I don't care if you use wire, string or whatever has to be out of a line.

And I always loved Japanese bonsai.

Even my dad for a while tried to do bonsai, but they could never survive years to grow, days to kill.

So the goal was made to try t make one that could truly last, so it's a perfect little picture of nature that is low maintenance.

And I love it.

Morgan loved it so much.

She eventually gave rise to Sennen Creations, where she plans meticulously on creating wire Bonsais that showcase her creative passion.

I want it to be timeless.

That's the meaning behind my name.

Senne in Japanese is the millennium.

It's a span of time.

So I wanted to create something that would last that span of time, which is what bonsai are.

Over the years.

They grow, they change, but if something happens, it's heartbreaking.

So I wanted to make something that would last, tha I wouldn't have to worry about it dying in the future.

While bending wire can take its toll on Morgan's fingers after spending hours at a time working on her pieces, she says it's all worth it.

I've been at this now for three and a half.

Four years.

hundreds upon hundreds of hours have gone into trees that I love.

Ever since I was little.

I still remember sitting down and drawing.

I've always enjoyed art.

Art has always been somethin that's been a part of my life.

And then I found out in colleg that I also really like to work with my hands and do sculpture work, which is how I've now really been leaning on Bonzais Before I start to bend the wire, I first look at all the wood that I have.

I want to find something that has character that I can either build on, or it already is naturally there.

And then I'll take it to the drawing board.

I'll pull out the sketchbook.

I'll do multiple rundowns of the possibilities of wire and all the different shapes I could do.

Normally, my smallest trees can take me anywhere from 12 to 16 hours.

Well I can spend upward to over 100, depending on the size of the tree.

We're talking hundreds of feet up to over a couple thousand feet of wire in each piece.

Beginning with the trunk of the tree.

Morgan stretches out many strands, which can be hundreds entwined together for thickness from there... I get to the trunks end they come out almost in like, little Ys and from there I will take different colored wire that I've spent hours, even days coiling.

And I'll twist them into the trunk and then I'll shape them into the leaves.

One color it's great to do.

It's simple and easy, but something like the autumn pieces or any of the winter tree I've done, they have four colors so they can take me double to triple the amount of time it takes to finish them.

I gravitate towards the double pink trees because I find that they ar just a gorgeous representation.

But I also love, of course, the natural green because it just it screams bonsai.

And I love that so much.

Once the wire tree is finished, it really isn't.

It must be mounted on the pre-determined wood Morgan has chosen for the piece.

I personally really love to use driftwood.

Driftwood.

I feel already has so much natural character and it's not used for a ton of things, so I just like to give it another life, even though it's been already given one.

I like to use also different kinds of hardwoods with either a really pretty wood grain or bark.

I love to include the natural elements of the piece and not transform it too much, but still make it look polished and refined.

I can't use softwood.

I fear rot, and I want to make sur that the pieces will truly last.

I made a set of bookends a while back, and they were champagne and a bright red.

And I loved those two pieces, but I put them on display and I was like that one was hard to part with I'll just have to make more.