Title: "Smoked" - 2010 Size: 52" x 36" Medium: Pine & cedar woods, oils, fire *SOLD
"This one is admittedly more nostalgic for me personally. For 9 years, (from 1977 to '85) I spent my summers working for the U.S. Forest Service in the beautiful Uinta mountains of Utah. Among many tasks, the Forest Service decided to take advantage of my art skills, and had me router many wooden signs, and create a few public displays for the Ranger Station. - Those wood projects for the Forest Service kickstarted my relationship with wood, and driving & hiking those unspoiled places gave me a lasting appreciation for the "wild places" in this country. My years with the Forest Service, and the grandeur of the western U.S. are certainly seminal for some of the other environmentally themed wood works on this site. "
* I'd like to give acknowledgment to my two collaborator's on this piece... Mr. Beaver, and Mr. Bug. Yes, the cedar log frame here was actually chewed by a beaver, and the surface of the logs beautifully etched and channeled by the excavations of bugs under the bark .
* I'd like to give acknowledgment to my two collaborator's on this piece... Mr. Beaver, and Mr. Bug. Yes, the cedar log frame here was actually chewed by a beaver, and the surface of the logs beautifully etched and channeled by the excavations of bugs under the bark .