There’s a saying in Latin, MOMENTO MORI, which means “Remember that you must die” at first it’s morose and uncomfortable, but the more you force yourself to think about it, the more it becomes.. liberating.
Whether you ever achieve it or not, it ends the same way for us all, so you might as well chase greatness. What the hell do you have to lose?
There’s a lot to unpack here. First, I do this to pay homage. Do you know how many incredible pieces just like this were burned in a brush pile somewhere because somebody didn’t have vision enough to understand that they were lighting up art? More than the human mind can equate. Or worse yet, milled into something tiny and pathetic so that some wood nerd could build it into something gaudy? Makes me sick to my stomach. It’d be like taking the most beautiful girl in the world and running her through a sawmill.. no, no, not a good analogy.
It’d be like taking the most beautiful girl in the world and lighting her on.. NOPE, nope, even worse! Or maybe it is a good analogy? You wouldn’t do those things to a beautiful girl, why would you do it to this beautiful piece of art that nature provided us? Which brings me to point number two.
I don’t know what these are going to look like when we start. We have a general direction, but that’s it. Kind of like having a compass as opposed to having a map. The pieces dictate the final destination, we just try and do them the honour of making the best choices along the way so that the sum of its parts are greater than the individual. And that takes me to my last point.
Physically, not everyone can put these together. To have the vision is one thing, but to have a level of brute strength required to handle pieces this massive, is another. Then, there’s the ability to do surgery with chainsaws and a variation of other power and hand tools. It’s draining, and often my shoulders and forearms leave the wood shop burning and pumped, at which point I have Ariel shower them in oil and massage them with her body.
It’s the reason most sane people would never make a piece to this scale, because of the logistics of the entire operation. From selecting and harvesting specimens in the bush (which are all dead by the way, I’m not harvesting a beautiful living tree, robbing it of reaching it’s full potential. We owe it to them to see what they can become) to dragging them out, usually by hand. To the bark stripping, the lay out, the rough fitting, the fine fitting, the sanding, the final assembly, and lastly - the finishing.. it equals thousands and thousands of pounds of manipulation to do all that.
In short, they’re not for everybody, but godamnit you’re not everybody! Or you wouldn’t be here, reading this!! There are places for those people, and they rhyme with “Guy, Key, Ah” let them have it, mediocrity for the masses, greatness for the rest of us!!!
Price: If you want to be the King of Kings, then you better be a King to begin with. Be bold.
Jack of Doubles 3,200
Queen of Queen’s 3,350
King of King’s 3,500
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