Its all a learning curve !

All work and no play ..... encourages Jack to pour himself 

This bass relief sculpture is one of a series , the really remarkable this about these sculptures is not that they are completely hand carved using only small craft blades or the stunning material in which they are rendered ( red ceder slabs ) 

the really remarkable thing is that these stunning pieces of wood , a wood native to Northern  America 

'On most sites eastern redcedar grows slowly, and long rotations are required to produce conventional sawlogs. Because the wood is used for small items, however, and there is wide latitude in acceptable defects, shortening of rotations and intermediate harvesting of merchantable wood are possible. About 20 to 30 years are required for posts and 40 to 60 years for sawtimber (11,25)'.

The above excerpt is from USDA forest service on line reference concerning juniperus virginiana !

these pieces of wood that are an absolute delight to work with and yet they were simply discarded ... thrown out for land fill , having been seen to be unfit for someones kitchen after what can only be assumed was limited use .....

so there is this tree growing down on the gulf of mexico somewhere its taken it 60 years to get to its current state amid the scenery it sits ........ so some one over here in europe can have a kitchen worktop for a couple of years before throwing it out on the street so that it can be hauled away in great big gasoline consuming vans to big man made holes in the ground and dumped in there with all of the out of vogue phones and outdated p.c's .

but then why not ,... why stop there ...when you can get some guy in some remote once scenic valley  blow huge chunks of granite out of a mountain and send you that ... thats what you need .... that will make the place just right.....indeed just what the kitchen needs !

this really has descended into some sort of clearly visible raving madness !