COMING SOON….. The year of the organics

From time to time between the crazyness of life it dawns on me that I really need to slow down and take the things around me in. I’ll admit that that’s sometimes a bit tough to do, and when I do, its sometimes boring. Boring, until you really put some effort into it and try to look deeper than the first layer of things you see. I’m really not trying to get all introspective and deep, just trying to explain something I deal with. Anyway my point is that when I work through this process and make it to that point when nature makes a different kind of sense its pretty inspiring. I’ve had a few of these really great experiences, and sometimes it results in some pretty cool design concepts. And then of course there’s the random times when I’m in the middle of complete chaos and noise and something just pops into my mind and I come up with a great idea. Its almost irritating that I can’t control my creative process, but I won’t get into that. My point is that I was reminded of this yesterday when I went to Don Seawater’s, our local lumberjack. Don has about every kind of domestic tree in his yard. everything from the almighty walnut redwood, and cypress, to the lowly pine. You can even bring your own tree to him and he’ll mill it and put it in his kiln, which is really just a semi container that he fires a heater into.
All this poking around the couple acres of fallen trees got me fired up and focused. Honestly I don’t have a problem with the first one, but the focused part I struggle with. This year I’m going to pack my website full of new pieces, most of them are going to be really organic. Boy its going to be hard to give up all that orange