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Augustine. A pile of mouldy potatoes? Let's make a font!

Back at work with haul 2. I'm showered and changed for the 3rd time this day, and woefully tired. That big log in the back there, to my best estimate, is about 150lbs.

I got a nice big burl in the foreground, left. It being Jacaranda, that probably doesn't mean much. This wood - as far as I know - is very uniform in color and grain, so I may not see very much but just 'more wood' inside that thing. Only one way to find out, so I made sure to cut it off cleanly, and brought it home with me.

Within Templation evening at WORM organised by www.cut-up.com

Full colour offset / Mc paper / Jpeg hack

There's a lot less wood here than it seems, with all this thick, spongy bark.

Within Templation evening at WORM organised by www.cut-up.com

Full colour offset / Mc paper / Jpeg hack

This was a bit of a knotty connection point between several larger limbs - one long rotten away - and a main part of the trunk.

turning blanks from my first go at the European olive logs drying. This is just from part of one short log. The other parts of that log were resawn into some planks, which I did not get pictures of.

2006

words collage

Eucalyptus logs sealed with Anchorseal, a paraffin-based moisture seal. It keeps the logs from splitting due to drying too fast.

For whatever reason, Anchorseal turns European olive a deep crimson. It's gorgeous. I'm going to write to UC Coatings - makers and distributors of Anchorseal - to ask what's causing it, and if I can mimic it long-term with some form of non-colored finish. In a few days, most of the red turns to a nice warm brown color, evidenced in later shots.

This stack looks unstable, but the Anchorseal wax sealer got tacky pretty fast, and then it was like a solid block of wood pieces. They can be pried apart easily enough, though.

This log was beautiful inside. I can't wait to see these turned on the lathe, which they're resting against.

DIY untitled post punk compilation cassette. Unfinished.

oil paint oil pastel computer paper with cutup print from black ink

Art as always a possibility.

I lost control of a log in my miter saw. You can see the clear parts of the guard have been cut up. It threw the round log back into the wall, dragging the plastic into the blade. I had to disassemble the whole guard and chip out chunks of plastic to make it work right again. Scary!

These pieces are created in sets of two. I’ve used half a dollar per piece. But it’s now an artwork. What is it worth to the viewer? Will they want both pieces so as to have both halves? If the pieces get purchased separately will the owners ever know of each other or wonder where the other half exists? It’s a ‘re-mixed’ and fragmented dollar so is it now rendered worthless anyhow? And would it be different if it was UK currency?

More info about the artwork and what it was in response to here: nicolaanthony.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/what-price-art-thi...

It took a bit of doing, but I got most of the bark peeled away, leaving behind a cold, wet, slightly slippery cambium layer.

Eucalyptus on the left, paperbark on the right, paperbark bark in the bag atop the Eucalyptus at left. There's still a lot of bark on the pieces at right, but it's tiring peeling the inner layers. The stuff in the bag is mostly the obnoxiously peeling stuff from the bigger branches, but I also cleaned a few off entirely to see what they looked like inside, so there are some large, entire collections of bark in the bag, too.

pipeline slurry and diversions, please! levees don't work in water. This is what the caption to the times pic article should have been