Around the bend

So much snow this past winter that it built up on branches and caused a lot of them to break off. So I've been making my way through the forest, across strange swamps, over hills, across valleys, around each bend. There have been a few good pieces. But mostly it has been about the walking.

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...