MAPLE SORROW
This sculpture took me very long time to complete. Initially it was a huge very rotten piece of maple wood in my friend's fire pile.
I saw some potentials. I took it home, pressure washed it, and started to carve it. The process took me a very long time. I tried to put in this piece a lot of different ideas, forms, space perceptions and visual effects. Different textures and colors gave this piece a certain mood.
Making this piece carried me through a
very difficult personal time.
 Initial. When I got it to my backyard |  Bark is peeling out with pressure washer |  Cleaning iside out |
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 Trying to establish space inside |  Got it in the shop |  Still a lot of stuff to remove |
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 Start carving
Getting some ideas |  |  |
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 |  Back view |  Trying to preserve bark and defining the edge |
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 Carving
Making dynamic forms |  |  Trying to separate upper level and show the burl |
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 |  Shavings |  |
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 This position looks intresting |  |  |
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 Exciting
View from above |  |  |
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 Details are very impotant |  |  Drying |
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 Still a lot of carving to do |  |  Light inside |
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 Excruciating sanding |
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The process
