A sycamore crotch, turned, hollowed, carved, sanded and dyed in numerous shades of red, orange and yellow, on a stand of American black walnut. Finished with Acrylic lacquer. The disc is about 9" diameter.
This was originally meant to be a blank for a bowl. However, on closer inspection I found that the crotch figure was only really present on the inside, and therefore it would have had to be a natural edge bowl, but the growth of the branches coming out of the crotch was so odd that it would have looked funny. So I decided to turn it into a shallow hollow form. The crotch figure produced some cracks which I decided to carve away, and ended up with this "singing mouth" almost by accident (it certainly was not any deliberate design). As usual, all C&C welcome.