maritime theme.

As a child I would watch and "help"  my paternal grandfather work in his shed.

​He used wood from milled trees from the farm to build a number of vessels, including a 30 yard long boat.

Over many years I daily visited the construction site, watching as he created the boat out of wood milled from trees harvested from the family farm.  An early memory was watching the pouring of the half ton lead keel, a significant event given my later occupation as a sculptor.  Another was the final test: the final launch of the vessel into the ocean and sailing it out past the heads.

Just prior to my first interstate solo exhibition and workshop, and the birth of our child, I found myself also making boat forms, this time in ceramic paper clay.​  The paper in it originally came from wood.

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Read one of my ancestors  description of his 130 day boat ride on my blog.