North Indian rosewood, reclaimed from a forest fire. Over 40cm wide.
Rosewood is extremely hard — dense enough that hand-carving it is slow, deliberate work. No lathe. The entire form was carved by hand: the bowl, the pedestal foot, and the thinning of the walls to the point where the live edge could be left intact.
The burl figure is reaction wood — what the tree laid down around old damage. That turbulence in the grain is also what makes the wood most interesting to work. Dark red at the centre, lighter towards the natural edge, with the boundary between heartwood and sapwood preserved and untouched.
