Title: Amoeba Betula
Price: $750
Dimensions: 8.25" x 17.5" x 18"
Materials: Birch Burl
Other info: Carved from a birch, burl cap, this work is a sprawling, irregular form celebrating the glorious randomness of natural material. Oiled and then lacquer finished.
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Title: The Word for World WAS Forest
Price: $2,600
Dimensions: 10.5" x 16" x 16"
Materials: Maple Burl
Other info: Turned, carved, selectively dyed, and lacquered. There is always a tension, a cognitive dissonance if you will, for those of us using natural materials. We depend on a healthy ecosystem, yet have little control or influence over those who harvest our materials. If the word for world was forest, the word for world now seems to be profit
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Title: Chalice: Yesterday's Wine
Price: $975
Dimensions: 12.25" x 9.5" x 9.5"
Materials: Spalted Maple
Other info: Turned and carved from spalted maple, with the look and feel of some strange ceremonial vessels unearthed at a remote desert dig.
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Title: A Bowl for Nysos
Price: $2,900
Dimensions: 10" x 16.5" x 16.5"
Materials: Maple Burl
Other info: Big leaf maple burl, turned and carved. This work continues the series of pieces with stylized tree supporting structure, giving the impression of profound stability and visual movement. Nysos is a Greek mountain god.
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Title: Leafy Way
Price: $1,600
Dimensions: 6.75" x 17" x 16.5"
Materials: Maple Burl
Other info: Turned, carved, and then dyed with a multi-layering process from red maple burl. The legs are raised vein leaf forms. The title is a faint homage to an earlier dwelling place.
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Title: Chronos Chalice
Price: SOLD
Dimensions: 9" x 10" x 10"
Materials: Catalox Burl
Other info: Spalted Catalox Sapwood Burl, Turned and carved from a single chunk of burl, base then selectively dyed, lacquer finish.
Time is the central reflection here; the time it takes the burl to form, the time it takes spalting to occur, the time needed for the turning and carving, and in each case, relative to the applicable scale of comparison, the time is a lot.
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Title: The Pool of Gnossos
Price: SOLD
Dimensions: 5.5" x 19.5" x 15"
Materials: Oak Burl
Other info: Aged white oak burl, carved and polished interior, natural exterior surface sandblasted, lacquer finish.
Gaze into a pool, and wonder if what you know is any more than a reflection.
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Title: Down the Ridge, into the Cove
Price: SOLD
Dimensions: 5.5" x 30.5" x 22"
Materials: BLM Burl
Other info: BLM burl, carved and polished interior, natural exterior sandblasted, lacquer finish.
Living in the Appalachian Mountains, the views are up along the ridgelines, but life is carried on in the coves, isolated valleys surrounded by high peaks, with only a pass or two to connect to the world outside.
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Title: "A Bowl for Dunatis"
Price: SOLD
Dimensions: 11" x 16" x 16"
Materials: Maple Burl
Other info: BLM Burl, turned and carved with a stylized tree motif forming 3 legs and branches. Dunatis is the Welsh god of the mountains.
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Title: Suspended Amphora 3
Price: $975
Dimensions: 14" x 9" x 9"
Materials: Cherry
Other info: A single piece of cherry timber turned and carved, with a lacquer finish. Until the end of October, the hollow form is on display at the Governor's Executive Residence in Raleigh, NC.
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Title: Maple Burl Vase
Price: SOLD
Dimensions: 8.75" x 9.9' x 9.5"
Materials: Maple Burl
Other info: Hollow form turned from spalted maple burl, a bit of timber courtesy of Chris Ramsey of Kentucky.
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Title: "Awaiting Jonah"
Price: $1,150 - SOLD
Dimensions: 6.5" x 14" x 9.5"
Materials: Honduras Rosewood Burl
Other info: Whole Honduras Rosewood Burl, carved and polished interior, bark peeled and exterior surface sandblasted. Second in a series paying homage to Leviathan.
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Title: Elvenware Bark Texture Goblet
Price: $1,100
Dimensions: 9.5" x 7"
Materials: Maple
Other info: Most recent Elvenware goblet, turned and carved, pyrography textured, dyed. The most difficult for me of all the different things I make.
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Title: Botany on Betelgeuse
Price: $2,400
Dimensions: 6" x 18.5" x 18.5"
Materials: Maple Burl
Other info: Maple burl turned and carved. One of a series of work my wife always called "Flying Saucers" so each has some space or UFO related name.
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Title: Broken, Twisted, Blown Out
Price: $3,275
Dimensions: 10" x 13.5" x 13.5"
Materials: Mystery Burl from Belize
Other info: I received the burl from Chris Ramsey, who had broken his back, literally, handling the huge chunk of wood, The rupture in the side seemed only appropriate as karmic balancing, while the twisting fin legs symbolize the difficult and often meandering paths we take, not only in recovering from disaster, but every day as artists trying to find a way to meaningful expression.
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Title: Butternut Legged Bowl
Price: SOLD
Dimensions: 7" x 11" x 10"
Materials: Butternut
Other info: Turned and carved from a butternut tree removed during home renovations. The owner insisted that the tree was walnut, and after a while I just let him.
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Title: Elvenware Gothic
Price: SOLD
Dimensions: 6.5" x 5.75" x 5.75"
Materials: Figured maple
Other info: Turned, carved and dyed from a single piece of maple. One of a series of goblet forms exploring the intersection of natural forms and the deliberate geometry of turning.
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Title: The Doors of his Face, The Lamps of his Mouth
Price: $6,000
Dimensions: 16" x 10" x 21"
Materials: Honduras Rosewood Burl
Other info: Sometimes turning is not the only, or even the best technique for handling extremely convoluted wood. With this piece, I saw the finished work and the name almost at once. The name is from a Roger Zelazny story I read 30 odd years ago.
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Title: Quercus Phantasticus
Price: $2,500
Dimensions: 10" x 14.5" x 14.5"
Materials: Red Oak burl
Other info: Red oak burl, turned and later carved, continuing a series of goblet related forms with natural elements. This piece was turned from very wet burl to allow for maximum wood movement to distort the rim and create texture on the surface.
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Title: Still Creek Bend
Price: $2,800 - SOLD
Dimensions: 2" to 5" tall x 21" x 31.5"
Materials: Maple Burl
Other info: From the Creek series, overall forms suggesting the paths that flowing water creates. Still was not named for its nature, but rather for the nature of the beverage once manufatured there.
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Title: Burly Leaf Legged Bowl
Price: $975 - SOLD
Dimensions: 8.75" x 11.5" x 11.5"
Materials: Maple Burl
Other info: Maple burl, turned and carved. Legged vessels allow a lift and stability without the visual weight of a large base, and have provided a fertile ground for playing around with design.
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Title: Catalox Scale leg Vase
Price: $1,275 - SOLD
Dimensions: 12" x 6.75" x 6.75"
Materials: Catalox Burl
Other info: Turned and carved from spalted catalox sapwood burl, then finished with lacquer. Wood courtesy of Chris Ramsey
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Title: Tall Legged Vase
Price: $1,800 - SOLD
Dimensions: 16" x 11" x 11"
Materials: Ambrosia Maple
Ambrosia Maple, turned and carved. A whole log turning of ambrosia maple allows for the most striking presentation of the streaked figure, and allows for long graceful legs.
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Title: Chalice of the Wise
Price: $2,900 - SOLD
Dimensions: 10" x 11" x 11"
Materials: Catalox Burl
Other info: Turned and carved catalox burl, latest in a series exploring goblet forms and the intersection of forms from mature and the deliberate geometry of turning.
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Title: Elvenware Goblet
Price: $1,100 - SOLD
Dimensions: 10.25" x 6" x 6"
Materials: Figured maple
Other info: One of a series of goblet forms, turned, carved, textured, burned and dyed. The series began after watching a marathon of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies.
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