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Juniperus Sabina: The Secrets of the Optical Distraction

Juniperus Sabina: The Secrets of the Optical Distraction

December 5, 2007
 
picture-sequence illustrates some steps of the whole work on dry wood. Many zones have been lightened by means of high-speed milling cutters; after opening two splits in the trunk, we wondered they revealed a natural hollow of the trunk itself; every shari has then been refined using gouges and fire; the operation ended with the application of jin liquid, to which we jointed titanium oxide, in order to avoid the formation of a non-natural patina (that's why powder oxides are to be preferred to tempera colours).

Juniperus procumbens var. sonarè…a long work

February 2, 2007