Shell

Orientation: tumbles
Process: Turned a primitive shape on lathe for proportion, then hand carved for final form. Method learned from Vesery class applied independently.
Casting Note: A mold was made of Shell and it has been cast in plaster and concrete with varying success. The casts are experiments/derivatives, not separate pieces — they ask questions about authenticity, sameness, and difference. Which is real? Which is authentic? Is it the same or different when the form is identical but the material carries different history?
Visual Readings: The spiral reads as an eye. The dish is the primary focal point.
Type: wood sculpture
Date Created: Late 2024 (after October Vesery class)
Ownership: Kept.
Tactile Note: People pick it up and tumble it immediately. The dish fits the hand and thumb — the form invites handling.
Vesery Note: Made after the Fort Collins class, not during it. Applied the Vesery method independently — turning for proportion, carving for exploration.
Why It Works: Completeness. It resolves. Has a primary focal point (the dish), invites touch, and the spiral reads like an eye — gives the piece presence.
Finish: Wax, lightly buffed with wool pads
Origin Story: Made after the Vesery class in Fort Collins, exploring ideas from that class — woodturning a primitive shape for proportion, then hand carving for direct exploration and final shaping. Pear wood, same material as Scroll.
Material Source: Salvaged pear wood (same source as Scroll)
Story: Scroll's sibling. Another spiral born from indecision, another accumulation of choices. The tighter coil and the visible terminus suggest a journey that found its end. Arrival after wandering.
Dimensions: Size of a jumbo egg
Status: Complete. Still in artist’s possession.

Materials

pear wood salvaged

Formal Elements

spiral Inward-turning coiled form with grooves that trace directional flow indecision becoming decision, path through uncertainty
groove Carved channel that creates rhythm and directionality, invites tactile following marking the path of energy through the form

Embodies

becomingness The quality of being in passage between states. Not before, not after—during.
vesery-turning-point One class. Three of your strongest pieces. The proximity, the permission, the collision with someone operating at that level. It unlocked something.