I was just going through an old hard-drive, pulling off any photos I care about before I shred it, and I found a bunch of mid-90's images I had forgotten about.
This one was poster art I made for a cue I called "Puzzle [for Maurits]", depicting the two inspirational sources for the cue. Along with the cue, the buyer got the poster, and a deep-frame shadow box with the original Escher Sky and Water II print and the tear-out from a tattoo magazine featuring American sideshow "freak" Paul Lawrence ("The Enigma"). Also on the shadow box were various extra ivory inlay in the form of "puzzle pieces".
The entire cue is inlaid using unique 4-axis techniques that had not been used by anyone (even me) prior to this cue. A close look at the buttsleeve reveals that the thin Ivory lines separating the Ebony puzzle pieces are continuous without seams - which had never been done before, and to my knowledge has not been done since.
Enjoy:
TW
(PS: Baseball great Dizzy Dean famously said. "It ain't bragging if you done it". One of my favorite quotes.)
This one was poster art I made for a cue I called "Puzzle [for Maurits]", depicting the two inspirational sources for the cue. Along with the cue, the buyer got the poster, and a deep-frame shadow box with the original Escher Sky and Water II print and the tear-out from a tattoo magazine featuring American sideshow "freak" Paul Lawrence ("The Enigma"). Also on the shadow box were various extra ivory inlay in the form of "puzzle pieces".
The entire cue is inlaid using unique 4-axis techniques that had not been used by anyone (even me) prior to this cue. A close look at the buttsleeve reveals that the thin Ivory lines separating the Ebony puzzle pieces are continuous without seams - which had never been done before, and to my knowledge has not been done since.
Enjoy:
TW
(PS: Baseball great Dizzy Dean famously said. "It ain't bragging if you done it". One of my favorite quotes.)