The second listening piece.
Snake.
There is something ancient about the way a snake listens.
Not through ears, but through the body itself.
Through contact, vibration and the subtle language of pressure, movement, temperature, and earth.
The snake does not separate itself from the ground beneath it. It receives the world through direct relationship with it. Every movement across stone, root, soil, and fallen leaf becomes information, attention and knowing.
I have been thinking a great deal lately about listening beyond words. About the ways the body listens long before the mind understands.
This hand-carved antler piece emerged slowly, following the natural lines and curves already held within the bone. I wanted the snake to feel as though it was not engraved upon the antler, but moving through it. Emerging from it.
Like the hawk listening piece before it, this object is intended to be held. To gather oil, smoke, touch, and patina through age and use. To become shaped by relationship.
The old stories often speak of snakes as symbols of transformation, underworld wisdom, death and renewal, but beneath all of those myths I think there is also this:
The snake as a creature of profound embodied listening.
Listening through the belly, through contact with the living world and without separation.
Finished with natural oil and leather.
One of a kind.
£345 plus P&P, or Kerbside collection if you are local to Ludlow.
The second listening piece.
Snake.
There is something ancient about the way a snake listens.
Not through ears, but through the body itself.
Through contact, vibration and the subtle language of pressure, movement, temperature, and earth.
The snake does not separate itself from the ground beneath it. It receives the world through direct relationship with it. Every movement across stone, root, soil, and fallen leaf becomes information, attention and knowing.
I have been thinking a great deal lately about listening beyond words. About the ways the body listens long before the mind understands.
This hand-carved antler piece emerged slowly, following the natural lines and curves already held within the bone. I wanted the snake to feel as though it was not engraved upon the antler, but moving through it. Emerging from it.
Like the hawk listening piece before it, this object is intended to be held. To gather oil, smoke, touch, and patina through age and use. To become shaped by relationship.
The old stories often speak of snakes as symbols of transformation, underworld wisdom, death and renewal, but beneath all of those myths I think there is also this:
The snake as a creature of profound embodied listening.
Listening through the belly, through contact with the living world and without separation.
Finished with natural oil and leather.
One of a kind.
£345 plus P&P, or Kerbside collection if you are local to Ludlow.
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