Circle series

Nautical Compass

Based on a drawing of an old nautical compass.

12” by 12” --- Maple, birch, makote, bird's eye maple, and monkeypod on birch. 2023

 Muybridge

In 1878 railroad baron Leland Stanford made a bet that all four legs of a horse were airborne while galloping. He hired Edward Muybridge to prove it by shooting a sequence using 12 cameras.

12” by 12” --- Padauk, lacewood, and walnut on birch. 2022

Moon Map

Based on a map of the earth with the different positions of the moon and the sun by Johannes van Loon (1708).

12” by 12” --- Cherry, anegre, bird's eye maple, walnut, monkeypod, and wenge. 2023

Spotify

Musicians don't get much for their work on streaming sites, but I listen anyway. Ah, capitalism...

12” by 12” --- Maple, wenge, cherry, zebrawood, and bloodwood on walnut. 2023

Wash your hands

Florence Nightingale was horrified about the cleanliness of hospitals during the Crimean War. In 1856, she drew a graph with nine month-long radial slices, each divided into the cause of death. The largest was not from the war, but from germs from doctors not washing their hands.

12” by 12” --- Cherry, mahogany, and bamboo on oak. 2023

W.E.B. Circle 22

The scholar and Black rights activist W.E.B. DuBois presented a series of beautiful and insightful graphs for an exhibit at the 1900 Paris World Fair. This was decades before this type of artwork was popularized by Malevich and Kandinsky. This chart shows the distribution of Black landowners in 1875 Georgia.

9” by 9” --- Cherry, padauk, walnut, maple, and wenge on oak. 2022

W.E.B. Circle 11

The scholar and Black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented a series of beautiful and insightful graphs for an exhibit at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair. This was decades before this type of artwork was popularized by Malevich and Kandinsky. This chart graphs the Black population in large cities to rural areas in 1890, as it moves toward the spiral.

8” by 10” ---  Walnut, sapele, paulownia, and bloodwood on maple. 2023

R100

A Bauhaus-style interpretation of the BMW logo for my old friend Mark who's been riding BMW motorcycles for a half a century.

7” by 7” ---  Wenge, birch, lacewood, and bubinga on maple. 2023

Super Circle

An homage to early 1900s Russian Suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich’s “Supremus 55" painting.

10” by 10” --- Walnut, wenge, paulownia, birch, and bloodwood on maple. 2023

Cent

Base on an early US penny design

8” by 8” --- Sapele, bamboo, cherry, wenge and makote on oak. 2023