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Jason Silva
05-30-2011, 2:05 PM
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This peice of pecan wood was reclaimed from the side of the road from a street expansion site. It was turned into a 5" sphere then hollowed out. It was then painstakingly carved into a delicate spiral, sandblasted and dyed black. Its fixed to a hand carved and sandblasted base of redwood root burlt with bark and sapwood still intact. The stand reflects years of erosion and the sphere signifies the delicate nature of our planet.
Nate Davey
05-30-2011, 2:14 PM
Holy Monkeys that is nice!!!!!
John Keeton
05-30-2011, 2:48 PM
Jason, I hope you held that thing with kid gloves on! Man, that looks fragile. Beautiful piece, and quite interesting, too.
Tim Thiebaut
05-30-2011, 2:55 PM
Wow you hit it out of the park with that one, thats beautiful.
David E Keller
05-30-2011, 3:03 PM
Nicely done, Jason. The amount of time and patience that goes in to making something like that is inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Skip Spaulding
05-30-2011, 4:24 PM
Jason, What a beautiful and well thought out piece!! Thanks for sharing, Skip
Steve bellinger
05-30-2011, 4:30 PM
Jason that's just outstanding. I love it.
Jim Underwood
05-30-2011, 5:45 PM
Man. The lengths some folks will go to, to hide tool marks.....;)

Just kidding.

I like it. I can't imagine how you kept this together as thin as it is. Like the presentation too.
Jim Burr
05-30-2011, 7:34 PM
Great effort Jason and a cool symbolism along with it. You easily have more patience than many!
John Hart
05-30-2011, 8:47 PM
...The stand reflects years of erosion and the sphere signifies the delicate nature of our planet.

Before I read that, I sat back and saw a tree on a hillside.
Wonderful piece. You must have the patience of a mountain.
Scott Hackler
05-30-2011, 11:12 PM
AWESOME! I love everything about this. Really cool Jason.
Baxter Smith
05-30-2011, 11:12 PM
Great turning for a great theme. Well done!
Dan Forman
05-31-2011, 2:12 PM
Interesting piece and story.

Dan
Steve Schlumpf
05-31-2011, 4:15 PM
Very interesting and thought provoking piece Jason! More than anything else - I love the imagination! Thanks for sharing!
Mike Cruz
06-01-2011, 10:16 AM
A picture of this should be next to the definition of art. Just way cool...
Josh Bowman
06-01-2011, 10:19 AM
Jason, that is wonderful!