The Spirit Wrestler Gallery in Vancouver,BC, Canada, carries art by the First Nations tribes of the Pacific northwest, the Inuit of the Arctic, and the Maori of NewZealand. I bought a jade pendant made by a 23-year-old Maori artist there about 5 years ago and have been wearing it ever since.
It’s a wonderful store. Here is a link to the Maori pendants: https://www.spiritwrestler.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=5_17
Or you can look at their catalog here: https://www.spiritwrestler.com/catalog/index.php.
“My Tenor Banjo is made of cherry wood & there are some places that are walnut in the neck and peg head. I used some wood inlay for the side with some added crushed turquoise with epoxy glue then sanded that down. It’s easier to use abalone shell. This shell is gotten from Aqua Blue Maui LLC. WONDERFUL FOLKS to work with and their process of making abalone shell into a product that can be used easily….WOW. They have a great website and sooooooooo many colors to choose from. This shell that I’m using is from N.Z. but there are abalone shells from all over the world. They make it into the thin even stuff that is not even as thick as a credit card and can be cut by scissors. All made there in Maui. And yes, I did inlay this abalone shell. I used super glue to make sure it stays where I put it.
So often a banjo overrules a small group of musicians. That’s one reason why I like this style as it’s not too loud. I used Baritone Ukulele strings on this banjo as that is the tuning. It’s also called “Chicago tuning”…really it’s just the last 4 strings of a guitar. Easy to play and enjoy. Not as heavy as your brother’s Tenor Banjo. There are two other tunings that can be used with this banjo, making it very playable to folks who play other instruments.…”
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Nice necklace pendants, mostly whalebone, by Sosaia Pulu. He is in Waimea durng the week, and at the Hanapepe Street Fair on Friday nights.
Yesterday I discovered the espresso hangout in Waimea, called Aloha-n-Paradise, run by the very lively Candy Baar. While waiting for Candy to make my latte, I spotted a dust-covered bottle on a shelf on the porch. It was an exquisite little bamboo house, complete with 2 people and a palm tree impossibly ensconced in a bottle with a rusty cap with a diameter of about 1-1/4 inches. Did they build it inside the bottle, or have it folded so they could slip it in and then pull it erect?
I had to have it. Candy and I agreed on a price and when I get back, it’ll be a star exhibit in the Shelter office.
Coffee is excellent and there’s an art gallery and wi-fi connection.
“Bobby Heffelfinger created this rolling art studio in West Marin county, California, on a 2013 Ford F-350 truck with mostly recycled materials (left over from various building projects). He started with the truck chassis and built a flatbed with 2 × 2 steel square stock.…”
https://www.theshelterblog.com/bobbys-mobile-art-cart/
One-of-a-kind, handmade obsidian knife by flint knapping artist JJ Heo. See selection of knives here: https://www.jjstonecraft.com/
In 1989, I drove my Tacoma truck to Arizona to visit my cousin Mike, who had created a sculptural complex in the desert near Sedona. Mike and I had hung out together as kids; he was a year younger, and we looked a lot alike. He was an artist from early on. We’d each gone off with our different lives, then got together in the mid-60s when we were both feeling the stirrings of the cultural revolution, and this was the first time I’d seen him since then.
He created the room shown here out of used automobile windshields, with stained glass glued on with silicone caulk.
