My latest from Dave Kelly

i like it and can understand about wanting to have prime block to look at

you know tho on a burl you need to have the base that shows the outer "ugly" and the inner beauty

and what about the contrast of a heartwood/sapwood lots of options for a premium handle wood or ivory display
 
I lean towards it almost being Dada:

Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war. They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality.

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.



This piece could be attributed to influence by Chantal Gilbert:



Along with some of the Techno-functionalism represented(without a clear function, of course)...if the headphones were not there in context, this might "just" be some wood and acrylic:




For natural materials, my personal style is more of the craft movement.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
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It's a gorgeous piece of wood that's for sure and the understated display highlights the focus, which is the grain.
Though I agree with Lorien, that an Egg shape, if done well would not only show off the incredible grain, but would add the extra focus of the crafting of the shape.
It would give the work another level of interest.

That said, I can see that the limitations of the material size informed this design as did the desire to preserve as much of the wood as possible.


Nice cans STeven.
 
COOL Roger, and nice work by Dave Kelly.

I can appreciate your enjoying the wood for the beauty in it. I like semi-precious stones and have various shapes that were polished to show the beauty of the stone, without any useful purpose. Spheres, obelisks and egg shapes are common.

Peter
 
I certainly understand the desire to just show off and display a beautiful piece of wood. I have a couple of blocks of wood that are just rectangular-ish blocks as they were cut, which I've stained and polished. They serve no purpose other than being nice pieces of wood. I don't think I've seen curly Koa in person yet. From those pics I can imagine the chatoyance.
 
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