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
walnut spoon
walnut spoon
walnut spoon
planing a line
ash
four
solution
rough earth snake (I think)
rough earth – good name
if you like the spoon you can buy it here.
A few images of some recently completed spoons. Two are pear with relief carving and one is a smooth finished figured walnut. All three are for sale here.
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 School of the Transfer of Energy 