Hardwood

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Para is a cutting board designed and manufactured at Emily Carr University on Granville Island. Designed as a response to the static cutting boards offered today, Para presents the user with a dynamic cutting surface that enriches the food cutting experience. The channel at the far end of the board acts as a trough for cut bits of food or waste pieces. Para is available in both a scoop trough, ideal for hand use, and angled trough, designed for knife use. The twenty degree parallelogram mimics the cutting angle of a right handed person. Para is constructed using heat treated birch and has a 1.5 inch quality thickness.

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As part of a community projects course, our class was given the opportunity to connect with the residents of the Dr. Peter Center in downtown Vancouver.  Our goal was to work closely with the center to generate artwork, which may be extremely sensitive in nature, and do so in an extremely ethical manner.

In response I grew close with a group of men who sat and played clib together.  I had grown up playing with my grandparents, just as many of them had.  We shared stories laughed, and ultimately I lost our games, but gained a very rich experience.  As an offering I crafted them a custom crib board from black walnut, which was sourced from my property in Ontario.

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       Crafted from a rich cherry, this wooden incense burner combines practical usability with a fun visual aesthetic. The user inserts a stick of incense, which when lit, becomes the tank’s smoking turret. Once the stick has finished burning, the ash can be easily discarded by removing the magnetic center tray. There is even a small compartment in the rear for additional artillery. Drawing on the opposing nature of war and peace, the “Tactical Tranquility” incense burner sits as an artifact of irony. 

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These African Tongue Drums were completed to inform the development of my grad project ('Sound Resonating Furniture').  They were created to assess the resonance capabilities of a variety of imported and domestic hardwoods.  The top sound-boards are African Padauk Hardwood, used for tonal resonance.