Pear and osage. Pot and spoon. Turn and carve. Root and hold. Turn to bread.
carven pear wood spoon
roots grab earth
grow tall
charred a little for contrast
carved with prairie dwellers
wheat and bluestem on an osage vessel
also burned a little prairie fire
with the remnants of earlier dwellers
light as a feather
another pear wood spoon
little cypress vessel
little cypress vessel
little cypress vessel
walnut bowl with foot
walnut bowl rim detail
noyer bol à pied
crabapple vessel
crabapple vessel
These are all available over at Baumwerk.
From the Song of the Ancient, here is a small turned and carved vessel in black walnut and osage orange. The idea isn’t fully formed or unified, but it is advancing. As the yellow osage wood ages it will turn a deep red-orange, nearly as dark as the walnut.
The End of the Valley, guitar, accordion, fiddle and banjo.
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Here are the results of my collaboration with some beetle larvae on a piece of persimmon.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 