HISTORY of the WOOD
Wood for these bowls has been salvaged from farmlands,
riverbeds or beaches and comes from once majestic
trees that grew high on the mountainsides. 
The
trees, some hundreds of years old, have either died
or fallen in landslides, then been washed down the
steep river beds during floods.
Some of these trees are now are and
can be found growing only in very remote places or
national parks.
On their journey down the rivers a lot
of the logs are smashed into pieces as they pass through
narrow, 
bouldery
gorges.
It is these pieces that inspire and
dictate the size and shape of the finished products.
The wood is gathered, rough sh
aped
by adze and chisel, then put aside to dry out.
The final process after hours of scraping and sanding,
is polishing with natural bees wax to bring out the
grain of the wood.
