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  1. I Navigate These Seas By Starlight

    I Navigate These Seas By Starlight

    Black Oak bowl, Bloodwood pewa, Koa, Bradford Pear, and Bamboo canoe, India ink, acrylic and milk paints. 7.25"d x 3"h. When I posted a previous piece, "The Vessel", Emiliano commented on Hawaiian wayfinders using the stars to navigate the seas. I went down the rabbithole,and came up with this...
  2. The Vessel

    The Vessel

    Osage Orange calabash form with three Wenge pewa. I carved the interior, coated with two layers of India ink, and then painted a ton of tiny dots with Acrylic paint. The idea: Vessels are so common and important in societies across the world, I have a hard time imaging that extraterrestrials...
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