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It is always a pleasure to be able to visit an old friend again after all these years!!! Fleur, you are the greatest!!! The last day of the show tomorrow starts the long road home! What a place to have show. And so good to meet old friends after all these years! Thank you to the Smithsonian Women’s committee for all the hard work! We are on our way to the Smithsonian Craft Show in DC. If you would like a complimentary ticket to the show, please let me know! Photo @betsyblue After a couple of weeks of processing a small Madrone root burl. So much wood, so many ideas, so many possibilities!!!! Photo credit: Kristy Kun #woodart #woodsculpture #Madrone #interiordesign #wallsculptures #w #bookart #burchardstudio Looking back …..A glimpse at different ideas and approaches over 30 plus years. #woodsculpture #woodart #ChristianBurchard #cwa #aaw Every once in a while, to me for unknown reason , some cheeses turn into something totally unexpected and probably not repeatable. A robust alpine tomme was expected, but it turned after two month of aging to be the sweetest, just slightly stinky and very and super complex ‘cheese’. To me, after about twenty years of cheese making, it is still magic, every time. This milk comes from good grass and grain and good water and healthy goat mothers. And then it is about bacteria and acid levels and sugars and lactose and just the right temperature at the right time. Stirring and heating and more stirring and draining and of course brining, daily washings. Ah, patience, trust. Magic. What a delicious gift. #cheesemaking #christianburchard #coldmountainstudio #southernoregon #cheese Kristy and I are having our first show together in Ashland with Claire Duncan at Hanson Howard Gallery. @hanson_howard_gallery @claireduncanart @opulentfibers Looking back…… Always curious as how the object relates to ground underneath, I experimented with various ways to raise the vessel into the air. It allowed me to remove the foot of the vessel (which had gotten smaller and smaller and some vessels would not stand up any more….) and come up with different suspension systems. And so new, much freer shapes emerged. Vessel as body….and such. #burchardstudio #christianburchard #woodturning #lathe #woodart #sculpture #woodsculpture #woodart #collectorsofwoodart More spheres…….Here are a few more examples of my explorations with spheres. Towards the end things got rather complex……. #christianburchard #burchardstudio #turnedwood #spheres #interiordesign #woodart Looking back…. at spheres! It started with a simple commission for some rosewood spheres and -turned-into a long series starting in the middle 90’s. And that much practice made me a better turner for sure, nothing creative about the basic form, all about tool control, stance, movement and…patience. A few thousand were made…. #burchardstudio #spheres #christianburchard #woodart #turnedwood #interiordesign

American Craft Feb./ March 2016

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