This piece is from the Sculpture as
Furniture Series. It is a pedestal made of wood, glass and, aluminum.
The stand is forty-one inches tall, twenty inches wide and twenty-four
inches deep. I was given this piece of three hundred pound piece
of walnut by a friend in Washington State. It was a left over piece
from a tree that he quarried that had been blown down by the Mount
Saint Helens 1980 eruption. It is a thirty-six inch long quarter
section of the main trunk. Looking down on it from the top its shape
is a slightly irregular quarter circle. It is a mostly rich red
golden brown with some lighter and darker variations and has been
highly sanded and polished. The two flat sides show signs of the
force of man’s saws. One made with a chain saw and the other
with the band saw blade of a portable mill. Seventy five percent
of the saw marks have been removed by the sanding and polishing
process. The recesses of the saw marks are sanded and polished.
The third rounded side shows signs of past infestation that has
left dark slightly recessed spots. Most of the recesses run vertically
and measure three eighths inch wide and two inches long. The top
showing the annual growth rings is highly polished also, but it
is not perfectly flat having a split level surface where a chainsaw
stopped cutting halfway through to make a second cut from a different
direction. A piece of three eighths inch glass that gives the piece
it finial width and dept of twenty by twenty-four inches is held
four inches above the top of the walnut by one half inch polished
aluminum dowels all equidistance from their respective corner. Three
of aluminum dowels are drilled and set in an inch or so from the
edges. One dowel is set at the near ninety-degree corner made by
the two flat sides and the other two are located where the curve
side intersects the flat side. They rise vertically from the end
of this walnut stump to support the corners of the glass. The fourth
dowel having to catch the corner of the glass that is cantilevered
out past the circular side is drilled in the center of the curve
about six inches down for the top. It extends out horizontally about
six inches before it make a quarter radius rising up to support
the fourth corner level with the other three. This piece once rough
and torn still shows the brutality of man and the forces of nature
but has been caressed to be a beautiful object.
For a more detailed description of this sculpture
please contact hank@chronicart.net.
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