Feb 25, 2025 | Diary, Wood
sunlit bobbins Just some bobbins basking in the sun. The bobbins now spend most of their time in archive boxes, waiting in the dark to be used. But today, as they wait to be wound, weighted and mounted they’re basking in the winter sunlight. They look so...
Jul 26, 2023 | Diary, Wood
grain store Stockpiling carving experience for future use. The piles of wood shavings have continued growing, and the hour(less)glass has made me further consider how they can serve as a log of the time, process and materiality involved in the bobbin production....
Jul 13, 2023 | Diary, Wood
hour(less)glass Finding ways to track time without using time. As the number of carved bobbins slowly increases, I’m noticing both an intense yet reluctant focus on time. There is a heightened awareness of time as I carve the bobbins, not in its steady passing,...
Jul 6, 2023 | Diary, Wood
sharpening waveforms Sharpening tools to make velvet patterns. Today was the first time I needed to sharpen my tools. I haven’t done it before, and I’m so dependent on my lathe chisels that I went into it with a lot of trepidation. I had started shaping a...
Jun 13, 2023 | Diary, Wood
bobbin prototyping_01 The first experiments in making a velvet bobbin. As I start mapping out the beginnings of this project I recognised a need for some “materiality” to ground myself, something physical to grasp alongside the theoretical foundations I am...
