From Flitch to Ash

A Musing on Trees and Carving

Plot

Diane Derrick's from flitch to ash: a musing on trees and carving which takes glimpses into the writer/sculptor's memory of her forays with flitch (wood) including amazing digitized depictions of the scupture pieces is a work of art itself. The fact that the actual wooden scupture pieces no longer exist because of a devastating fire gives the reader a strange sense of perception and reality. The more one reads, the more magical and wonderful this unique book seems to be. Derrick draws the reader into another world. She mesmerizes and explains in an emotionally satisfying way that which may be unfamiliar, the mystical nature of wood, its history in art, and the compulsion that drew the author/sculptor to explore its ever-changing qualities and to choose wood sculpting itself as a form of artistic expression.

Contents:
The Myth --
The Germ --
The Spirits --
The Spell --
The Veil --
The Facts --
The Choice --
The Rub --
The Lure --
The Twist --
The Knell --
The Essence --
Clay.