Wood-fired!

What is it Part 3

Here’s another for you to guess.

This one is very common. Probably occurs everywhere in the world.

And the answer is…

Bill was right! It is a portrait of Ms Meany. Lee and Nina were also correct. I photographed the shoot of an old potato that happened to be the spitting image of Bill’s 4th grade teacher.

The shoot was about 5mm high. It was photographed with a Canon 350D and a 100mm macro lens.

Too easy perhaps?

4 comments February 19th, 2009

Curly’s Sacred Heart

The Village Carpenter has a recent post describing a 19thC grease box. The object is a small carved box with a swivel lid. The inside is carved out to hold a supply of grease. This reminded me of a wonderful piece by Matthew Harding.

This is carved in the form of a human heart from a wood called purpleheart. It functions as a container for his mother’s heart pills. It also uses a swivel lid as shown below.

The piece was first exhibited in 1996 in a group exhibition called The box as container curated by George Ingham.

I created an online version of the exhibition way back then. It is a part of my old web site that I haven’t migrated but you can still view it here. Some of the external links may now be broken.

There are some very good pieces hidden in there. I will attempt to highlight a few in future posts. Three reviews of the exhibition are included. All are interesting but I highly recommend reading Michael Gill’s review. Woodworkers especially will find it entertaining.

4 comments February 1st, 2009