Larry Pickering
09-10-2012, 5:35 PM
The Bayou Woodturners challenge, this month, was to turn something round with a stand. When I first turned this I was not happy with the way It came out. Setting around the house with no electricity for 4 days I had plenty of time to think about it. the piece is made with maple, it's 20"x20" over all, the disk is 13".The square frame represent a hurricane tracking map grid, the 30 and 90 degree marks are the coordinates for New Orleans. The step-carvings on the disk represent the outer bands of a hurricane, the green, yellow and red are the patterns on the radar that I kept watching on my I phone. The hole in the middle is the eye wall. The sinker cypress base is Louisiana's eroding coast. Last but not least are the tar ball, from the BP oil spill, that Issac washed up.
Tried to put a little humor in a tragic situation, my house received 4 inches of water, but that is minor compared to what some of my neighbors, friends and relatives experienced from Hurricane Issac, a cat 1 storm.
Tried to put a little humor in a tragic situation, my house received 4 inches of water, but that is minor compared to what some of my neighbors, friends and relatives experienced from Hurricane Issac, a cat 1 storm.