Touch and Sight: The bark on
the tree ranges in colour from a light grey to a light chocolate brown. The
older, chocolate brown bark appears to flake away in long strips exposing the
lighter grey colour underneath.
There was an
assortment of textures, gradients, shapes and sizes in the bark collected at
the base of the tree. The colours ranged from dark brown/almost black, lighter
browns and reds. There was a link between the darker colours and the
‘curliness’ and ‘delicateness’ of certain pieces which suggests the darker
pieces were older.
As you can
see from this photograph, the bark towards the base of the tree turns a reddish
brown colour before it flakes off. We can assume that the pieces resembling
this colour are much ‘younger’ than the darker pieces found in the litter.