Douglas-fir Storywood

You can read a lot into the grain of a piece of wood. Layered on year by year, we are treated to a detailed record of when branches began to grow, how the sun shone and rain fell, what hardships the tree encountered, and how long it lived.

Storywood is a series of simple forms made from characterful pieces of wood from the Using Trees collection. Each has been meticulously prepared: cut to length, handplaned and sanded to a high grit. They are objects to touch, ogle and engage with over time. Each piece comes packaged up with a short note from Zac describing some of what can be seen in its grain.

The Storywood series comes out of Zac's 'Other Wood Pieces' exhibition presented at the Cooper Union (New York).

PIECE NOTES: Salvaged from a barn that stood in the Rouge River drainage basin. Though found in Ontario, this piece of Douglas-fir would almost certainly have been transported across the country by rail after being felled in British Columbia. The pith of the tree is centred within the piece, giving you a clear chronological account of the tree's early years. Branches that are visible in its grain can be traced from the outer boundary back to the year that each began growing and their own annual rings can be inspected.

RING COUNT: est. 240

DIMENSIONS: 170 x 170 x 180 mm