Lately in the studio, estimating the size and length of small sculptural pieces l’m making from a batch of found wood and objects. I’ve had finds stored in bins for the last five years and longer. I scavenge, and I save my own table saw scraps, a practice that never ends and there’s never enough room to keep things. When I start with a new idea, I do a dry run. It’s a kind of “measure twice cut once” approach. When you work with materials that are one-of-a-kind, you can’t undo a bad cut, you adjust the idea and do something different.
Photo: joel wilkinson