The Mushroom
Originally this was a log that I was going to use as a stump to hold a metal smiths anvil. However, I soon found out that it was much too short for that purpose, I got another log to use as an anvil and then I had this one to carve. I can't say where the design idea came from, a picture I'd seen of something similar, I'm drawn to African art, perhaps I was daydreaming. Regardless, what I had in my head was nothing like this piece turned out. Some of the basic ideas are there and that's about all. The reason it's call The Mushroom is because when my wife first saw it she said with all the conviction in the world, "It looks like a mushroom".
Granted, I hadn't carved out the space between the legs at all, the entire bottom was sitting flat on the floor, there where no gaps. But I couldn't see it, "A what? A mushroom?" I didn't aim to carve a mushroom, it didn't look like a mushroom, frankly I was happy that I did it at all. Years later, I see it one day and go "Oh, I see why she calls it a mushroom, it does look like a mushroom. And then I changed it, I cut out the spaces between the vertical parts leading up to the top.
It still looks like a mushroom, just less so. This stump also created a jump off point to carve The Throne. Which is much closer to what I had in my head at the beginning of this piece. Perhaps one day I will carve a third attempt of this idea.
18" x 16" x 16"
Fir
$350.00
It still looks like a mushroom, just less so. This stump also created a jump off point to carve The Throne. Which is much closer to what I had in my head at the beginning of this piece. Perhaps one day I will carve a third attempt of this idea.
18" x 16" x 16"
Fir
$350.00