This New Year’s Eve I found myself sitting by the fire as my kids roasted hotdogs, hand sanding some of my resin pendants. Lately I’ve been drawn to the organic and somewhat abstract shapes of pinecones and hickory nut shells embedded in resin. I use leftover resin from other projects and never know what the result will be until I start sawing the cube into slices. Each slice is slightly different, like stop motion photography. Different and yet the same.
This time of year is about change in so many ways. The new year is upon us and the darkest day of winter is behind us. We race forward towards the new spring. And yet at the same time we hold tight to the traditions of our winter celebrations, reveling in memories of winters past. We make promises for the new year that are so often repeats of previous years’ goals. It is a reminder that all of life is a circle. The wheel of time and the cycle of life. As I was sanding pendants tonight I found myself shaping them into circles. The nuts and pinecones are nature’s own new year’s resolutions. A slice of memory from the age old trees thrown out into the world seeking a chance at tomorrow.
Like the hickory trees dropping their nuts onto the sidewalks of my neighborhood, I send them out to find new homes. Or, perhaps, to become squirrel food.
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