So Hal and I made it out to Austin Thomas's Etsy show at Pocket Utopia in Bushwick, aka East Williamsburg, this Sunday (in the first little snowfall of the year). Hal, in classic Hal fashion, pulled this sassafrass bowl he was working on out of his backpack (they take around a year to finish curing--he never knows if a bowl will survive or crack while drying) and after we made the subway trip from the Yupper West Side he mentioned he had a [heavy, possibly frozen] butternut squash from Jenkins and Lukins Orchard, near New Paltz, where he used to work. He threatened to give it to me at the opening (he did, actually, and I de=acquisitioned it to Austin).
The sassafrass bowl is amazing--those legs are not joined--it's all one piece of wood. Like Indian or African cultures that take a log and just subtract, the elegance is in what's not there.
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