ARTIST STATEMENT
As a design school graduate, my career as a designer provided a strong, creative foundation for my career as an artist.
By combining my disciplined, problem-solving approach to the creative process with my expertise in woodworking, I developed a unique art form that features the end grain of exotic hardwoods. Like the artist who paints with oils, I paint with wood, and the vast selection of hardwood species from around the world with their remarkable and distinctive patterns, colors, and configurations of their growth rings, visible only in the end grain, becomes my artist's palette.
In 2011, I began making cutting boards. As my woodworking skills developed and my creative designs and production methods became more complex, my cutting boards began to look more like works of art. In this process, I saw the opportunity to introduce the world to the intricate, natural beauty of the striations in the growth rings - or end grain - where each hardwood species gracefully displays its own distinctive color and characteristic "fingerprint". Exotics like Bubinga, Padauk, Purple Heart, Wenge, Yellow Heart, Zebrawood, Nogal, Sapele, Lacewood offer a tasty assortment of visual flavors to the artist's palette. Most of the world has never seen the beauty hidden in the end grain, much less have known that such beauty, especially in exotic hardwoods, even exists! Thus, the birthing of my EndGrainArt!
I invite you to experience this exhibit as you would a smorgasbord buffet offering you an assortment of yummy delights! As you move through the line, notice the variety of shapes and sizes, colors and textures, and how they are thoughtfully and meticulously prepared for your visual pleasure! Notice, also, which ones stir your appetite and seduce your taste buds! Touch and feel the art! Stare at the intricate complexity! Upon closer inspection, you will notice that each of these tasty end grain inedibles is abundantly offered in bite-size pieces!
Creating art is a spiritual experience allowing the infinite creativity of the divine in each of us to express our irresistible impulse to create something beautiful. And each of these amazing creations becomes deliciously creative expressions of our deepest selves.
Jeff Rogalski
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- FREE!
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