Wove, woven, weaved

Etymology 1 Old English wefan. Cognate with Dutch weven, German weben, Swedish väva. Etymology 2 Probably from Old Norse veifa ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin vibrare. So etymology 1 can be said to relate to what people do, and etymology 2 to what objects do. A person weaves, an ambulance weaves. There also seems to be a distinction between going over and under and going side to side, twisting turning... A branch, a knife blade, a hand. The weave of the branch as the act of the hand.

Solidity and thought

I have been in daily interaction with wood to shape solidity, subtracting out of a form to discover something within even as it remains a thought. The wood is there.

spoons and spheres

A wooden spoon, like so many things, is the process of working a surface to "build inwards" towards a core elemental identity. I found a birch tree that feel down in the high winds last week. I need to get the bark shaved away so that the wood can breathe. First things first.

Rock and wood

There's a huge tree stump out behind our house that I've been trying to move (half-heartedly) for about six months. It has a beautiful space where a rock has been "grown-around" by the roots, creating an almost sensual intertwining of rock and wood. I would like to celebrate it.

New direction

I found a twisty branch, carved around a rotten section, taking it back to solid wood and noticed that there would still be about three quarters of solidity left to what would evolve as a shape I could take up as a challenge to call art...

Emptiness

I try to understand emptiness by honing away at solidity. A hand holds wood. Another hand holds a knife. A finger touches the wood to stabilize the blade as it shifts its placement upon the wood to bend away "something". The shavings pile up on the floor. Everything is in balance, nothing gained or lost; emptiness refocused, space redefined.