I sculpted the Yin, feminine walking stick, from a fallen piece of Honey, or maybe Black Locust that was salvaged by an old friend, Gordon Seasley in the state park on the outskirts of Bloomington, Indiana. Only a suggestion of a human vulva was apparent in the salvaged piece as found. The piece appeared to be rotted through. As I began working, the beauty of the Honey Locust grain became apparent.

Honey and Black Locust and other species are susceptible to attack by a canker fungus,”Thyronectria canker is a common fungal disease of honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos), occurring wherever this tree is grown. Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) and Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus) have also been reported to be susceptible to the disease.” This disease figures the wood, sometimes in dramatic ways.

These sculptures are in an ancient tradition of fertility and sexual wood carving, Ghana, Asante.

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Jazz Meditation In C minor by Stan Shawnee Boyd on #SoundCloud

THANKSGIVING 

Wake up this morning on Lake Seminole , day before Thanksgiving. 
Got all the old people on my mind,
Thanksgiving days gone by. 
All my old folks gone to the other side.
I remember uncles in the kitchen 
toss-in' back shots, bad jokes and wild game in the pot. 
Can't remember what I was thinkin' then, just a sprout, but I know what I'm thinkin' now. 
Just an old movie I run backwards in my mind. 
Never has been much I wanted to hang onto. Too often play the stranger. 
It's Thanksgiving. S'pose I oughta feel sorry and sometimes I do. 
Wild game in the pot, a merriment I've lost. 
The broth gets murky when I stir it. 
All my family's gone. 

2009


 


 

Ida passed to the spirit world, January 29, 2003 at age 91. Ida, my Mother and best friend all my days. I started having vivid dreams of her as I remembered her, my age forty, she age seventy. This is one of my portraits out of those dreams.

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