This bowl started out as a piece of firewood. The colouring and patterning is spalting caused by fungal growth. If left too much longer, the wood would not be workable as too much decay would have set in.
I charred the outside with a Mapp gas cylinder in the glass studio. The glass students looked at me as if I had just sprouted a second head.
Perhaps it should also be for Iron Chef Japanese, MORIMOTO Masaharu who is famous (or infamous) for his creative use of a propane cylinder as a cooking device?
(Spalted beech; 4" d; 2003-02).
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