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I can appreciate the love of viewing stones but I must confess that it is not my thing. My soul leans towards wood, not stone, and so I reckon there should be a class for artistic wood.

Billy Goat Gruff
BGG is just back from the framer. This artistically carved piece of wood very well depicts a contemporary mountain goat complete with forelock, ear, eye, beard, tail and one can imagine four legs tapering to a point on a high rock. This was picked up from the flotsam of a tide line on a Botany Bay beach. Lochy the Ness
A walk through a beach side park and I was taken by a dead root on a dead tree lying on its side. Days later and a few strokes of a saw secured Lochy the Ness. I made a stand for it and another Viewing Wood decorates my home. I'm here to say that wood can be just as special as stone. I have a number of other beautiful naturally designed wood pieces and I treasure them the way suiseki addicts treasure their stones.

I confess I am also a lover of wood & have a few pieces for contemplation just like viewing stones. This is one of my favorites "The Scorpion & Snail" I have never gotten round to making a stand for it so it just sits on the shelf in my office

Thanks for posting Mel and i am also a lover of wood. It amazes me how people fall into the elements category of earth, wood, metal stone etc.

I love wood! its the best thing for the camp fire, Seriously I will take a pic of my piece tomorrow.

MattA
The scorpion is beaut. Have you considered working it over with the Dremel metal brush to polish the surfaces a bit in the same way I did with Lochy the Ness. That had a lot of bark bits on it. Initially I thought I liked the natural look but the polished look has brought out the beauty of the piece. It is all up to taste and how each of us sees our Viewing Wood.

Just thought you might like to see this piece of driftwood my wife found. It looked so much like a fossil pterodactyl scull that she wanted it displayed so i made a base and mounted it . hope you like
regards Bonsaiboy50

Here is a piece of mollusc eaten driftwood that I found washed up about forty years ago. I cut the base flat, made a little stand and added the hut which I bought at Koreshoff's nursery. The two "islands on the left were the off-cuts from the base.

Years ago I discovered that, just as there is Suiseki, the Art of Stone Appreciation, there is also the Art of Wood appreciation with an official name, but I am darned if I can find it on Google. Maybe someone else can discover it?
I think it's only logical that there should be such an art form, considering the crazy things that happen to wood.
Thanks for posting examples of it!

Lisa

bonsaiboy50 wrote:Just thought you might like to see this piece of driftwood my wife found. It looked so much like a fossil pterodactyl scull that she wanted it displayed so i made a base and mounted it . hope you like
regards Bonsaiboy50

It reminds me of an old, withered bicycle saddle. Beautiful.

Cheers,
Mojo

In keeping with the wood theme this piece of Mallee root was given to me by my son from his mothers estate. I had always said it looked like a mountain.
It was highly polished with polyurethane, I left it out so it would weather, then plant it up for show.

Also the other piece is planted as an accent. Hope you like them Mela, cheers Pup attachment=1]P1150261.JPG[/attachment]

I never thought I was alone in my fetish for wood but it is positively delightful to see the lovely pieces of art and the way they are displayed. Full marks to everyone.

Pup, is your "moss" the artificial florists moss or the real thing?

Hackimoto wrote:Pup, is your "moss" the artificial florists moss or the real thing?

The real thing I have quite a bit of it ready for our show next month.

Not driftwood but a piece of burl and how i display it.
Cheers, Mark