One of One · No. 6c94
Russian Olive - North End - 14"
CA$1350
Same Russian olive, and the piece I can least explain. Is it a teardrop? A comma? I am not sure what it is, and I have decided that I do not care. It was carved in a moment of zen: no sketch, no plan, no thinking, just letting the chunk of wood speak and answering it cut for cut. A conversation, not a design. Wood this figured has plenty to say, veined through with phomopsis from a tree that lived a whole dramatic life on Saskatchewan Avenue, and my entire job was to listen. Whatever you decide this piece is, that is what it is.
The Saskatchewan Avenue Russian olive: rescued from falling on a house, hollowed by ants, written through with phomopsis, and the source of every olive piece in this collection. The pin marks the avenue; the address stays theirs.
Filmed on Saskatchewan Avenue in July 2024: the tree this piece was carved from, coming down before it could take the house with it. Very few pieces of wood anywhere can show you this moment.
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