One of One · No. b855
Manitoba Maple + Leather - St. Boniface - 14"
CA$395
The crack came after the carving, which is the cruellest timing there is. This was one of my favourite bowl shapes I had ever cut, and watching it split as it dried was a gut punch. So it became only the second piece I ever answered with deerskin leather, the stitching that has since become a signature: the crack laced like a wound, honest and visible and stronger for it. Same St. Boniface maple as so many pieces in this collection. People keep telling me it looks like a football, and they are not wrong; there is something held-together and stitched about it that reads as sport and as surgery at the same time. I have honestly never understood why this one has not found its home yet. Some pieces just wait longer for their person. This one is still waiting.
The door-knock maple of St. Boniface: logs on a front lawn, a knock on a door, a bowl promised in return. This tree runs through this whole collection, and this piece carries one of its hardest-won lessons about what drying wood decides to do.
One of one. When it is gone, it is gone. Ships worldwide, fully insured, from the Winnipeg workshop. Every piece carries its tree’s record: where it stood, its rings, and the carving on film. Leave your details and Sean replies personally, usually the same day.