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.
Curly's Sacred Heart (mum's pill box) 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.
Made in purpleheart. The top swivels to open the container.
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.
6 comments February 1st, 2009
