Above and Left: Book of Seasons, 2024. Cherrywood bandsaw box made in Scarlette Rouse & Elizabeth Weber’s week-long class For the Love of All Bandsaw Boxes at John C. Campbell Folk School. Tools used: bandsaw, micromotor, woodburner. Ingredients: cherrywood, acrylic paint, india ink, milk paint, wood finish.
Cycles, seasons, life and death.
Right: This and other boxes made in the bandsaw box class. The blue box is maple and found sticks, turquoise flocking on the inside, acrylic, and milk paint..
The oak leaf is poplar, acrylic, and milk paint.
Cecropia, 2023. Reclaimed maple from a Baltimore-local furniture company cut and shaped, woodburned, and painted with watercolors, gouache, and a homemade oxidizing liquid. Featuring the largest moth native to Maryland State and one of its hosts, quercus Alba, the White Oak.