Finding the beauty inside, one piece of wood at a time

Each time I put a new piece of wood on the lathe, it is an exciting surprise. What will I find inside? What will the grain look like? What is the best way to showcase and honor that which took so long to grow, to eventually end up in my workshop?

Each time, I get a chance to admire, and to express. To witness something beautiful of nature, and to transform it with my own nature. To step into the workshop, my place of meditation and creativity, and be able to use natural, often found material; to be able to shape it, form it, reveal it, highlight it, and eventually, send it off to its final home, in its final form, is a privilege that will never get old.