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Fossils Chair, Homage to The Earth – finished

April 22, 2009


 

January 12th: While sanding the wood for the Sumac Bushes Chair during coffee breaks, I have started the Fossil Chair, paying homage to the fact that without trees, all life on Earth would not be so prolific, and might not exist at all. Fish and Trilobites are carved into the plaster on the front surface of the chair as well. in this series.

January 13th: Lower detail of Fossil Chair, carved plaster, acrylic paint inlay, sanded. In progress. Trilobites will have painted detail.

Jan. 14th and Jan. 24th updates, below: front details, work in progress on back/underside of the chair. After this stage, all details will continue to be refined with more carving and layers of acrylics. Haven’t done many details on the trilobites yet. The colors in the palm leaf still are too vibrant for a fossil, but are a perfect underlying color because it shows through when layers of blues and black are wiped away with a cloth.

Fossil Chair, left detail Fossil Chair, Homage to The Earth - 29 x 29 x 29 vintage chair, woven canvas, carved plaster. Work in progress Fossil Chair, right detail

Lower detail of Fossil Chair, carved plaster, acrylic paint inlay, sanded. In progress.

 


 

 Fossil Chair with Cycad leaf fossil replica; original was discovered in a Wyoming, USA river basin

 


 

250 million year old fossils found in the Dallas, Texas areaFossils Chair, Homage to The Earth, started in January and finished today, except for refining the bark fossil patterns on the back/underside. 29 x 29 x 29 inches refurbished vintage chair, canvas strips, plaster, carved, acrylics, varnish, waxed. 
The back of this chair has authentic 225 – 345-million-year-old fossilized clam shells embedded around the circumference. Next, the Encyclopedia Britannica listing. The fossils were found in a mixture of playground pebbles in Dallas, TX.Myalina, extinct genus of clams. Fossils found in a Dallas, TX playground rock mixture.
The Cycad leaf fossil replica original was discovered in a Wyoming, USA river basin. Portrayed on the front of the chair is the fossil of a Cycad, the first of palm-like trees that grew about 50 million years ago in a Wyoming riverbed. The first trees on Earth were actually nothing more than woody stems standing in and absorbing nutrients from water. Patterns of fossilized Paleozoic Lepidodendron bark- leaf scars are painted on the underside of the chair. Lepidodendron were a primitive species of the very first trees on earth, reaching heights of 130 feet (40 m) tall around 400 million years ago. Can we even relate to those numbers?  That’s what I love about fossils – holding one and contemplating Earth’s timeline is mind-blowing.


  Progress details:        
  Layering woven canvas strips with white glue and plaster   Layering woven canvas strips with white glue and plaster   Chair with cured and sanded plaster surface ready for illustration, carving, then painting
           
  Starting to carve front of Cycad Fossil Chair   Fossil Chair, Homage to Trees - starting to carve the cured, plastered surface   Layering paint and defining carved front of Cycad Fossil Chair
  Finished details:        
  Fossil Chair, carved front right detail   Fossil Chair, Homage to Earth and Trees, carved front left detail   Front detail, carved and painted
           
  Back details of Fossil Chair, fossilized shells and stones, painted patterns of Paleozoic Lepidodendron - first trees on Earth - bark with leaf scars   Detail of 250 million year old fossils and representation of fossilized tree bark on the back of the chair   Fossilized Myalina shells and stones, back details of Fossil Chair


 

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2 Responses to “Fossils Chair, Homage to The Earth – finished”

  1. Virginia Wieringa Says:
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:06

    you never cease to amaze me.

  2. Nikkico Says:
    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:06

    Virginia, your amazement amazes me :] Thank you very much for always being so kind. I don’t mind constructive criticism too remember.

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