Hi Les,
When I opened this post, I could only see the top 2 images. With your scorched lateral lines and the natural longitudinal line in the wood, the small images made it look like you’d taken up segmented work!
What a great piece of Burr you found there. I do like the way you’ve scorched the base area, making the timber ‘disappear’ into the darkened area. It gives the appearance of lifting the whole thing away from its own base, very clever.
You've studiously avoided showing one part of it, there is a dark section half way down, the edges of which are just visible, is it a bark inclusion or natural void?
I think this needs a peacock feather and a couple of fronds of Pampas Grass, or is that too 70’s?