Freaky Tiki
During our recent holidayup to the NW highlands I picked up few pieces of wood that took my fancy, a piece cherry, a piece of elm and a piece of yew – I wasn’t sure what I was doing with them when I lifted them in the wood-turning centre, although there was obviously something about them otherwise I’d have never paid cold hard pennies for them … still it was only pennies so you know.
The piece we have here is inspired in no small part by the tiki’s I keep seeing online and my own interpretation possibly reflects the fact that I’m no great fan of what seems to be a fairly prescriptive approach to these little devils, still it was a freaky tiki that came out.
It turns out that Freaky Tiki has always been something of an odd fellow amongst his woodland friends, sporting a nervous twitch and having a propensity for forced smiles those who don’t know him so well might be forgiven for believing that he belongs somewhere on the lunatic fringe.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth for this well read academic with a keen interest in dendrology. Indeed he spends a great deal of his time discussing such matters with Old Sam over a usually long drawn out game of chess down by the wooded grove.
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Tags: abstract, art, carved, carving, craft, gift, handmade, head, ornament, sculpture, tiki, whittle, whittling, wood, wooden
abstract, art, carving, craft, figure, head, scotland, scottish highlands, tree, wood | Alasdair | 
3 May, 2009 7:57 pm
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