Sculpture course in wood carving in France
Sculpture course in wood carving in France

To work with wood is like a mediative positioning towards matter, that is alive, vegatative and builds organic forms.

That means one needs to adjust ones concepts to the growthforms of the piece of wood and not work against nature. A knot, a winding, a stretch gives cause to inspriation to make "something" out of it and more to make something with it.

Wood speaks its own language of growth, and it even still works and lives forever, when the hand of the sculptor has completed his work, because wood cracks, it breakes up and changes forms, solong as the resin presses from inside to outside.

So, let yourself be seduced by the wonderfull smell, that streams out of freed pores and follow them. Take a journey into the veins and meanders and rings of the wood and surf as often and so soft as possible around the curves of the 3-dimensions of your piece of wood or call it timber of lumber.

Nestle yourself into the matter, that is so similar to human beeings.