In honor of the Fourth of July I decided to do a little bit of a patriotic piece for this week's project. I again left this one for late, but was inspired by these three different pieces of lumber. I chose to work with Bubinga, Alder, and Purple Heart. Although the Bubinga and Purple Heart did not come from the United States I was more looking at the color with the Bubinga a reddish brown, the Alder white, and the Purple Heart purple, but the closest wood I had for blue.
I decided to make a very traditional piece in a very different way. I made each wood into separate boxes. I do love boxes as most of you have probably seen so far. The bigger box has a bottom of american cherry just to bring it all full circle.
The piece became a free floating vase. I glued each box to each other in an ascending pattern. The Purple Heart box acts as the whole base for the piece and also the part to put water in for the flowers. The other three boxes have no bottom and act as a separation to put different sized flowers inside the whole piece.
As you can see in the picture from the top, every square box filters inside the base which is six inches squared. The height of the overall piece is 13 inches. The part that is great about this vase is you can utilize long stemmed flowers as well as short stemmed together and have all of them next to each other and in water at the same time.
I used these woods for their color but while I was working on it I was thinking that this was the idea of America in every aspect. The three woods came from three different parts of the world but work together as one. That is my interpretation of Unity.
This project will be in the Gallery showing at the end of the 52 weeks.
No comments:
Post a Comment