Manitoba Maple + Leather - St. Boniface - 16"

Why this one exists

Same maple, new confidence. This bowl was carved thick in my early years and then sat for a couple more, waiting for me to catch up to it. I have been playing with leather lacing in dark and light: dark leather can turn a rim into something like the ink line of a Japanese animation, a bowl drawn in one confident stroke. Here I chose light leather, and it does something completely different. It stays out of the way of the red inclusions and the colour of the wood, and it adds a texture that feels glorious in the hands, closer to the steering wheel of an expensive sports car than to anything that grew in a front yard. That is the point. This one is meant to be picked up.

It stood here

Another piece of the door-knock maple: the St. Boniface front yard a few streets south of the golf course, logs on the lawn, a bowl promised in trade. That one knock keeps paying for itself.

Every side of it