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The Language of Carving

Earth as Pigment, Ochre as Ground

Red iron-oxide sourced from river clay beds becomes the sacred surface that receives every carved mark.

Lines That Speak in Spirals

Ancestral faces emerge through continuous incised curves — each spiral a chapter in oral history.

Bilateral Symmetry Binds Two Worlds

Mirror-form compositions place the living and the ancestral on equal, inseparable ground.

Timber Remembers What Hands Forget

Old canoe and house wood carries grain patterns that become integral to the final composition.

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