A segmented vessel built from canarywood, thermal ash, cherry, and bocote with clear resin poured between the blocks before the blank went on the lathe. 8.5 inches across and 8 inches tall. The blocks course in a basket-weave pattern around the wall, rust and gold canarywood against the dry charcoal of thermal ash, with narrow cherry pillars stitching the rings together.

The construction is open work, set in resin. The segments are spaced rather than closed, and the clear resin fills the lattice between them. Wood and resin are turned as one surface, so the wall cuts cleanly from rim to base with light passing through the resin lines. The piece reads from the inside as well as the outside, and shifts character entirely near a window or a lamp. The thermal ash carries the long grain texture of ash with the color of much darker hardwoods, the result of heat treatment rather than dye or stain. The canarywood runs from pale yellow at one face to deep rust at the next, no two blocks alike.

A smooth, semi-gloss finish sharpens the contrast between the woods and the resin. The piece reads as architecture as much as vessel. On a console, an open shelf, or near a window where light can pass through it, the geometry holds attention from across a room. One of a kind.

Dimensions (W x H): 8.5 × 8 in.

$230