Our chainsaw carving collaboration draws from Colin and I’s shared experience working at Wood Street Studio, where we both began to see Wood as the perfect material for some of our sculptural aspirations. At Ringling, we both learned much about the creation of characters and worlds in a digital 3D space, but we have since become fascinated with bringing these designs from the digital space to the physical world. At Wood Street Studio we had success with carving small characters from chunks of off cut wood, but now we want to take our sculptures to the next level. We want to go BIG by carving whole logs into original characters using Chainsaws and large chisels. Logs sourced from owner of Wood Street Studio, Dale Rieke’s, vast collection of local trees that fell during Hurricane Irma. Colin and I will create a small collection of one of a kind carved wood sculptures, with hopes of ultimately showing the collection in a gallery space here in Sarasota.

 

 

 

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