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Last year, Todd from Lantern Hill Homestead gave me a bunch of offcuts and scraps from his woodturning projects. Among them were incredible specimens of spalted and burl wood, all from fallen and felled trees around local homesteads and farms. These chunks were already beautiful in raw form, but once I shaped and finished them with oil they transformed into ancient memories from the forest. The tung oil saturated deeply into these weathered and wizened tree remains, giving them gem-like qualities. Some became like agate. Others became like amber. In some places, the wood even became translucent. 

 

These drops are outfitted with sterling silver, a proper setting for these jewels of the woods. These are devotion you can wear. 

 

Petroleum free.

 

Approximate sizes:

Smallest rectangle: .5" wide by 2" long

Small teardrop: .75" wide by 2.25" long

Medium teardrop: just under 1" wide by just under 2.5" long

Long drops 1: .5" wide by 2.75" long

Long drops 2: .5" wide by 2.75" long

Long drops 3: .5" wide by 2.5" long

 

 

Tiger Burl Drops

$45.00Price

    Tender Fire Studio is part concept, part my tiny basement apartment full of art supplies and very little furniture, and part shared workshop. I work, play, and love on land that was stolen from the Pocumtuc people, settled by colonizers, and continues to be sold for profit in the speculative real estate market for the enrichment and comfort of the owning class. Decolonizing my practice is an ongoing study of how I can be in right relationship to the land, animals, and plants of this place while embracing and acknowledging the often-scary precarity and vulnerability of a life given to the pursuit of soul and the sacred rather than the settler concepts of security and safety. I give thanks and praise to the rivers that form this Connecticut River valley, to these sand hills and the ants that dwell here and find my kitchen window so inviting, to the many birds and their dawn hymns, and to the forests: o the trees, the ferns, the damp stones and the deep deep woods, you are the mercy of the sacred in cellulose flesh.


    Tender Fire Studio  @tenderfirestudio
    tenderfirestudio@gmail.com
    PO BOX 9359, North Amherst, MA 01059

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