Acceptance

Some beautiful workmanship, Malcolm.
Don L.

Great piece, Malcolm.

Hello Malcolm
A very wonderful piece . I look forward to seeing it in Hartford. Maybe we'll meet to ( get chance to shake your hand). No doubt you will have seen I have a donated piece to?, the spiral pair. Hopefully this symposium auction will be another new record . How many pieces are there in your acceptance piece?
Best regards from Jeff Greenwood.

Isn't the left side of the brain supposed to be the one where the creativity is, and the right side where logic and such exist?

Malcolm, the left side if your brain must have been developed to Einstein levels, because you just keep bringing such creative works to the world. I wonder how long you pondered that old saying "a square peg in a round hole" and then got inspired to assemble such a work as this?

Simply GENIUS!!!

Very nice and involved. I tend to lean towards pieces that are more "everyday". i.e.-a plate looks like a plate, a bowl looks like a bowl, etc.---but that is me, and that sells in my circle of galleries. You have a good deal of time in on this, and in the right circles, it is very appealing.

Yes, very nice, excellent , creative. But will it hold donuts?

Very nice piece.

I see all kinds of subtexts with this piece, but maybe my mind is in places it shouldn't be. You've taken the simplest of shapes and made them into something complex and very intriguing. One of the things I like about this and much of your other work is that the segmenting is really secondary to the overall provenance of the piece. A means to an end. The work doesn't shout "hey, look how many little pieces I used" but uses the segmenting technique to make a bigger more profound statement.

Despite my foray into art-speak, it's another tour-de-force and I congratulate you on a job well done.

I have another perspective about this piece different than Alans . I think the segmenting makes this piece. The variation from piece to piece separated by a glue joint and the grain running around the circumference rather than the grain going through four distinct orientations as in a bowl.