Spalted Sycamore

9¼″  x 1½″                                 $72  
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine


Sycamore was a tree of my youth. A large one lived by a trail in the woods where I played hooky. This bowl is made from another sycamore, not the giant that I touched when I escaped into Glover Park. But let’s look back; are there trees in our life that we can picture? I can see an oak that was as thin as my three-year-old arm. Being an unquestioning animist in those days I saved some of its leaves from the pile my grandfather burned in the gutter. When I last was on that street the tree filled the space between gutter and sidewalk, its roots pushing up a bulge in the pavement. I’m sure it winked at me.

Cost each: $72.00
Unit size: One of a kind