Stacked Single-Fluted Vessel, 2022
Richard Haining
Stacked Single-Fluted Vessel, 2022
Reclaimed maple
12.5 x 11 x 11 in
This series of vessels has not been turned on a lathe. Each is hand-built. STACKED piece by piece, layer by layer, all the while controlling the wall thickness as well as the profile. The "fluted" indentation is created as a result of the building process, intentionally placing each piece to create this profile. If you had a little camera and light, and peered into the interior, you would see the inverse of the indentations. The salvaged wood offcuts were sourced from a variety of local Brooklyn wood shops. The salvaged wood's natural coloring shows off tones ranging from ivory and pale yellow including a smattering of some mid and dark brown in tones. There is no stain involved. Once complete, the surface was shaped using a variety of hand held tools, resulting in a finely honed finish with slight undulations, similar to that of hand-built ceramics.
