My favorite poet is Gerard Manley Hopkins, which might seem like an odd choice for an atheist like me, since he was a monk who wrote almost only about his skydaddy. But damn it, he was a genius and an unparalleled wordsmith. So I have a new series of box tops and bases based on Hopkins poems. Feast your eyes. And for your enjoyment, the particularly beautiful Hopkins poems they go with: Margaret, Bright wings, and send my roots rain. All of these are woodburned maple except the bird/phoenix, which is goldleafed walnut.
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And here is our latest story box: Baba Yaga is a Russian folktale figure- a really scary witch who steals children, flies around in a mortar (I guess steering with the pestle), and lives in a house on chicken legs in a forest surrounded by skulls on pikes. The maple top of this box shows a hut on chicken legs strolling through a moonlit forest. It's woodburned, painted, and has a goldleafed moon. The inside shows a silhouette of Baba Yaga flying in her mortar.
I suppose Russian parents threaten bad children with Baba Yaga. Better or worse than terrifying little people with hell and the devil?
I suppose Russian parents threaten bad children with Baba Yaga. Better or worse than terrifying little people with hell and the devil?
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