Magnificent Wooden Stick Art Thing
May 1, 2015 1:03 AM   Subscribe

I found this superb woodcraft art thing at the thrift shop and was compelled to buy it. It's a picture made up of thousands of slices of twig, branch, logs. Various woods, maybe some bamboo. It has a 1970s feel to it (Owls!) I want to know what this sort of artwork is called, and perhaps identify its origin via an artist stamp and some numbers written on the back.

I have used all my googling powers, and despite learning that sliced wood craft is highly fashionable for its appeal to the modern lumbersexual, I can't find anything like it. It's not parquet - the sticks and bits stick out at different levels. The closest thing I could find is Freidolin Kessler's wood mosaics, but that's not even very close. It is very heavy, really quite large, and a total mystery.
posted by slightlybewildered to Media & Arts (2 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: It appears to be a Chinese attempt at a Southeast-Asian aesthetic. Plugging 木片装饰画 (wood slice decorative picture) into Taobao.com gets you a few similar results.
posted by satoshi at 2:23 AM on May 1, 2015 [3 favorites]


Best answer: What you're looking at - your search term - is "wood collage."
posted by Miko at 8:58 PM on May 1, 2015


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