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Michael Anderson

Saturday Morning Traditions

Pecan, vintage spoon, acrylic, India ink. 6" x 6" x 6". I turned, carved, pyroed, and painted this bowl, and added a few special surprises to the interior (see below). The vintage spoon came from a folk artist friend I know on another platform. This was a fun project that I created for the POP Balance exhibition. I believe I posted a shot of the bare bowl in the "what's on your lathe" thread a while ago. I aimed to make something that represents a portion of my childhood and also gives a sense of my trajectory as a parent. Theme statement included below.
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Michael Anderson
Funny mini-story about the interior mini-wheats. I roughed each of the three with a powercarver in my shop, and then carved the details with a thin-kerf saw and files in my house. My toddler was around and he kept trying to take the mini-wheats from me thinking they were actual cereal. I let him taste one and he looked so confused. He didn't understand that they were fake, so instead I told him they were still cooking. Then he kept asking me if they were done yet. Too funny.
 
Tom Gall
Love it!!! ... fantastic piece, Michael. So relatable - title, description, cereal, childhood, parenthood, spoon, etc., ... it all works. Love the illusion of the interior with the cut spoon and biscuits.:D Only improvement would have been a flat bottom where the spoon was immersed in the milk ... a very, very minor nitpick. I'm sure that when you turned the form the "spoon thing" probably wasn't in the plan.:) This should be a shoo-in for the POP exhibit!
 
Michael Anderson
Thanks for the kind words and the insight Tom. You’re totally right. Originally I was just going to carve the outside, but when I started to layout the design I felt like it needed something special. Hence the spoon and biscuits! The flat bottom gosh, that’s a great idea though, and would make fitting the spoon quite a bit easier.
 
Russ Braun
Way to take this idea to the next level Michael; that interior work is a very cleaver add! I’m eagerly awaiting the next effort you come up with!!
 

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