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Robert Strange Rustic Wood Artist
During the logging process, only the tree trunk is carried away, destined to become veneers or pieces of thin wood for novelty items and other mass produced furnishings. What remains is the unwanted stumps and limbs. Other trees are bulldozed off construction sites or are a result of the dead and dying.
Hidden deep inside the limbs, roots, and stumps lurks fantastic beauty in the highly figured grain of the wood. The highly figured grain designs in this wood are cut from limb and root junctions. When highly polished, the view from every angle will be different, the rich brown hues will darken or lighten, creating an illusion of heights and depths on a flat surface will occur. Natures Holograms.