Beauty and Blight

Something I’m appreciating with all my mind and heart now that the growing season has come around again is how much beauty depends on blight, how life springs up abundantly from death and decay.  We cannot have one without the other.  Life is the afterlife.

I’m still on a leaf kick over here — there’s an ocean of visual information in my gardens at the moment and I’m doing my best to draw on it! These hoops are big and bold but I kept them as light as possible and glory, how they move. Each leaf was hand sawed, textured, filed, and hammer formed. The hoops themselves were textured and work hardened by hammer so these breezy things have structure you can put some faith in. Love ’em. I’ll have three pairs in my shop today.

+Of The West+