There's one little bug trail into the center of the tree in this cross section. I love the look of the grain here, and can't wait to see it turn into something.

Special thanks to BP for the inspiration.

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

more doodle-paisley-drawings. I've been doing them on sticker paper lately. its not very convenient to take pictures of them when they're on walls, but i'd say all of these have been posted somewhere. i hope people are discovering them.

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.

Such a cool-looking Euc log.

thousounds of drill holes in panel of wood.

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.

OIl paint on computer print out paper with cutup text printed with black ink

i was trying to collect phallic nature images but ended up making this abstract mess.

Brushing away the mess under the bark revealed cool bug trails, but sure made a mess of my shop floor.

back bedroom becomes new office in weak cutup style

I think I will saw off the little bits and crusty branch in the foreground, then saw this down the main line that runs down the bottom of the top fork piece here, to the bottom corner on the right hand side. That'll make a strange wedge piece of the bottom left bit, but there's a chance I can chuck it up from the bottom corner after sawing it flat, and turn a shallow bowl out of it.

Art as always a possibility.

My Atha looks like a little elf in this hat. The frames are by Blythe Evans from her Cardboard Cutups. Everything else is from Tracey Monette's Carousel kit. The title font is MaxCircus.

candles + cutup veggies!

Holgas from feb. 2009

words are cut-up from an Art History text and an old Life Atlas of Human Body

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.

cutup and collage for media theory class

Fan tee

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

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!