Hand Carved Walnut Bone Spoon
There is an old intimacy between the things we make with our hands and the things we leave behind.
Carved from a single piece of walnut in our woodshed, this spoon was fashioned in the likeness of a bone. Its darkened bowl and long, irregular handle bear the marks of patient handwork, each curve shaped slowly to preserve the strange familiarity of its form.
I have always been drawn to the quiet presence of such objects. Those that seem to belong as much to the past as to the present, recalling a time when the implements of daily life were made by hand, kept for years, and eventually passed into the care of another.
A small remembrance of our mortal nature, made for the living.
Materials: Solid walnut, finished with beeswax and mineral oil.
Dimensions:
8“ long
Hand-carved in our California woodshed.
Hand Carved Walnut Bone Spoon
There is an old intimacy between the things we make with our hands and the things we leave behind.
Carved from a single piece of walnut in our woodshed, this spoon was fashioned in the likeness of a bone. Its darkened bowl and long, irregular handle bear the marks of patient handwork, each curve shaped slowly to preserve the strange familiarity of its form.
I have always been drawn to the quiet presence of such objects. Those that seem to belong as much to the past as to the present, recalling a time when the implements of daily life were made by hand, kept for years, and eventually passed into the care of another.
A small remembrance of our mortal nature, made for the living.
Materials: Solid walnut, finished with beeswax and mineral oil.
Dimensions:
8“ long
Hand-carved in our California woodshed.
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