George a lesson on improvising with the grain, without and beyond your choice and mix of timbers fascinates me, I am very familiar with all but the Elm our wood Guild has two huge Elm trees on the go about now planted over a hundred yrs ago.
Accented verticals in the Lignum break the mold into new territory accented by the button top using what feature in the timber to perfection scale disapears and the mind travels in the space conjuring up Idyllic scenes where the boxes take on new and changing themes ,variety beats repetition, repetition comforts the senses. The use of the graduated background has become the norm and the signature leading into the Huon Pine Burl where the bark inclusions reign supreme, you managed them so well especially as they came into the feature shapes Huon assumes oranges, sometimes white then swirls and ultra fine grain there could be umpteen years growth in there a whole lot of history and magic. The Burl Elm inclusions manage to round out and infill creating interest and harmony with the others.
Then the Olive grain two similar but different shapes subtle variation while matching and following that wow figure. Imposing centre piece with the dominant lid standing tall between the other two all matched by the through grain, colour and sheer beauty of and the warmth of the glow they create.
I have stood in a gigantic shed in Tasmania amongst untold tons of Huon Pine hardly able to breathe the pheronome smell overpowering in all that Huon there is only a small amount of real burl it comes up and goes like the will of the wisp to the early birds.
Thank you for the aura of your boxes mate they are inspiring.
Peter.
