Titled; Mesquite Campanula It has been reversed in the chuck. Pewter added. The shape, finalized, tomorrow, with good fortune... The pewter is melted and poured into voids. How to mount, fill, and ready for hollowing It's taking shape, just what shape. My partner and friend has a chainsaw that simply must be used. Here we go, the start of things, Oh how the excitement grows... Mesquite Burl with burrows created by what I believe is the "Mesquite twig girdler"
From my mind as a black man living in modern American social ills. Gerard Merchant was born in 1959 in Lynchburg, Virginia. My works are primarily in wood sculpture. My sculptures emerge through a process of retakes and variations that mark my creative journey of examining the ambiguity between my vision, and the wood’s already exquisite origination. As I execute unclear and less formal rules and which should always reference the partnership with Nature, we create Art.