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where i’m from

The first time I made a sculpture from wood, was with my father. We had found a beautiful piece of beach wood during one of many family hikes; it was bleached by salt and sun and looking at one another we both saw that there was a heron living inside the limb.

The tools we had at home were very remedial, I think we had a wooden mallet, a fingernail shaped chisel and a large nail stamp. The eye was easy to carve, it was pretty obvious to both of us exactly where it was, so with the mallet and punch we stamped it in. 

Feathers were a bit more difficult because neither of us had ever seen a living heron until only recently upon moving to B.C. This is where I first learned to be an artist; as my father and I found where the feathers grew from in this heron we had found. We used the chisel and mallet to stamp out each feather individually.