Art Liestman - Surface Enhanced Woodturning

Other Series

Each member of the Vox series is a hidden box that looks like one of my hollow vessels when closed. The lid is hollow (but has a 'floor'). Small magnets are used to hold the lid to the body. One Vox piece is pictured to the right in both open and closed positions.

The Burning Fields series features a surface divided into regions with an emphasis on texture. The lines outlining the regions are relatively smooth, but the individual regions are roughly textured. The two textures are treated with different colors. One Burning Fields vessel is pictured at the lower left.

The pieces in the Dancing Men series include figures of "dancing men". These figures are, in fact, English phrases encoded using the code devised by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men." These figures are a simple substitution code with each figure representing a letter of the alphabet. Each of the pieces is titled to reflect the contents of the message encoded on the object. In some cases, the title is the same as the message, but in others the title just gives a hint to the message. The figures are either pierced through the walls of the object or may be burned or carved into the surface. One Dancing Men bowl is pictured in two views below.

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