WT #166, Live Edge Hollow Form Vessel from Utah Juniper with Malachite inlay

WT #166, Live Edge Hollow Form Vessel from Utah Juniper with Malachite inlayLive Edge Hollow Form Vessel from Utah Juniper with Malachite inlay, 18. 25 tall x 11 diameter with a 3. 75 opening, diamond buffed cyanoacrylate finish. The void spaces in the wall of the vessel are from bark inclusions that penetrated far into the trunk of the tree. The tree was likely about 600 years old when it fell over and had been laying on the ground for several hundred years. A woman I met from the State Forestry Dept. told me that many of

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While the European Bison (Bison bonasus)is different from the American bison (Bison bison) they look very similar

This piece has so many wonderful elements … negative (void) space

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I recently got a lot of Tamarisk after I was contacted by the Colorado State Forestry Service

14” diameter x 14” tall

CO that was being removed and replanted