cityscape in wood

I was trimming the cutting board blanks today... and each time I got to the 'end' cut on the blank, I would stack the scraps up on the jointer (it was handy)...


That caught my eye... so I shot another angle on it




that led to a bit of re-arranging:



a bit of TBIII, a few clamps and I have this:



another view...





still a work in progress, but It reminds me a bit of a cityscape.

Lori says I should put a finish on it, and put it in the gallery where my daughter in law works. (Her father is the curator)

ned, when my youngest nephew was quite a bit younger (around 6-8), he asked if he could play with some of my off cuts. sure enough, i checked after he had been quiet for over an hour, and found that he had arranged them in the laundry room, along the seam lines of the tiles. i asked him what he had going on, and he said it was a city.

I liked it for the shadow play going on, the city aspect just makes a certain amount of sense. So did the nephew ever get back in the shop and build anything?

Ned,

A hundred or so years ago I won a PSA photo contest with a black and white photo entitled, "Deserted City." It was made with a couple of the kids wood play blocks, a piece of dry tree limb and high contrast photo paper.

I wonder if the negative is still around. If it is I may find it in a century or so.

I enjoyed your sequence and your photographer's eye.

Enjoy,

JimB