Late in 2018 Wing was approached by a family in Haverford to turn the trunk of a large oak tree that had been badly damaged in a storm into a symbol of special importance to the family, a towering ice cream cone. The family, heirs to Potts Ice Cream, wanted a tribute to their ice cream ancestors. And who doesn’t love ice cream?
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So in the spring of 2019 Wing got to work, stripping off the thick ivy, bark, and outer wood before reaching and revealing the latent the form within.
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