This sculpture is one of my most prized possessions. The pedestal is a rare piece of ebony. The dung ball was turned by my father-in-law John Sparling - a renowned wood turner of Gloucestershire. He made me this piece as a gift for the launch of #BeetleBoy. The silver dung beetle was cast in his brother’s workshop. When the sun hits it in the morning it sets my work ethic for the day. For a story is rather like a dung ball, gathered from the waste of a greater animal, out of which hatches new life. I am the industrious dung beetle navigating by the Milky Way to bring my story home. #mgleonard #inspiration https://www.instagram.com/p/BtSvAd0HQMg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15g7bahvy99yq













