That one time I made a lamp

This is an old project - the results of which I threw out during my last move. 

It all started when I found out THIS lamp costs $4100, and there were only 100 of them made. 

The original designers said they were inspired by Ernst Haeckel's drawings, which look like this:

 

To me, the lamp looks like that Haeckel drawing, but on three axis (one "trunk" facing up, one facing flat, one trunk facing down). If I could make 12 trunks (3 for each axis x 4 to spread around a circular frame), I could replicate the resulting forest scene.

I started with the basic tutorial for making a wire tree. I used about the same gauge wire as in the tutorial, but I kept each trunk at either 10 or 12 strands.

The bare wire looked creepy.

So I wrapped masking tape around the whole thing.

The result was still pretty nobbly and weird, but it effectively replicated the forest effect. 

 Mischief managed, though the result wasn't something I liked enough to keep.