Not exact matches
Whoever invented it must have had access to wide slabs of
wood from thick - trunked
trees in order to
carve large, round wheels.
Other ornaments are made from
wood, shaved to curl into the shape of Christmas
trees, or
carved into arches that hold a row of candles in a window.
The most popular forms of handicraft are the
carvings made from the
wood of the Zaragote
Tree.
There are plenty of stunning aesthetic touches at Villa Batu Kurung including water features and stone and
wood carvings as well as a splendid landscaped tropical garden full of excellent views,
trees, and shrubs.
Tiki Suites with private Jacuzzi and
carved wood king beds are just next to the hotel and surrounded by tropical gardens and palm
trees.
The de-barked trunks of chicle
trees (zapote - a native hardwood) have been used to hold up the beams which are
carved from the same
wood.
The exhibition will include Essere Vento (To be the wind) from 2014, a
tree trunk of petrified
wood with an impression of a hand
carved on the top, which juxtaposes nature with the manmade while suggesting physically incalculable time.
The series, Alberi, dates from the 1960s: in it, the artist
carved beams of
wood into the form of trunks, thus inverting the industrial process that made the
tree a beam to be used for constrution.
While in Japan, he studied the traditional yosegi zukuri process which influenced his work in
wood,
carved, hollowed and assembled from sections of
trees.
Working in a stunning variety of materials — including
wood, stone, metal, plaster, resin, acacia thorns — the artist makes palpable and present the analogous processes of nature and art:
carving large
trees along their growth patterns to reveal the sapling contained within; elaborating the interior space of his closed hand into a large - scale sculpture that both contains his hand and enlarges the space it contains; rendering the swirling mists of his breath in the cold in tactile clay forms that contain the impression of his body.
Penone meticulously
carves back the bark and outer layers of seemingly mundane pieces of
wood along the growth lines in order to reveal and expose the various knots that once formed the saplings and branches, a subtractive process that yields a younger version of the
tree contained within the beam.
Jenny had
carved several sonnets into these ancient fallen
trees lying in
woods, where dog walkers and park goers drifted through.
Carved -
wood cookie molds and burlap ribbon decorate the living room
tree in this Tennessee home.