Day 7 Prompt: Woodworking and Carpentry
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tolkienekphrasisweekMandatory Art Form Prompt
Wood as a substance arguably requires craft from the planting of specific seedings; through the exercise of bonsai, coppicing, daisugi, and other forestry techniques to shape living trees for use; into the cutting and curing of a felled tree; and ultimately to the direct artistic processes of carving, turning on a lathe, engraving, joining, varnishing, and beyond. Longships, netsuke, gyáaʼaang poles, lacquerware, and houses range from the monumental to the intimate artistic uses of wood,. Woodworking and carpentry invite us to consider the border between art and craft, the use of living or once-living materials in art, and the thought of what various characters might do given a chainsaw.
Optional Writing Method Theme
The final optional way to spice up your writing is mock-academic style. Do you think Hobbits write detailed guides for how to restore parquet floors -- such nice additions to a hole? Have Númenorean theologians written impassioned screeds on the religious symbolism of which sort of seabird Elwing appears as in the carved figureheads of the Royal Navy? Do the Noldor care a ton about the history of woodblock printing? Let your inner expert fly free!
Optional Art Method Theme
For those making non-writing art, this year’s final suggestion is in the style of one of Tolkien's peoples. Have you always thought the Blacklock Dwarves of Rhûn had a really distinctive aesthetic? Do you have deeply felt headcanons about the techniques used by master artists in Cardolan? Are you itching to show everyone you're right about the most common materials used for art around the Ice Bay of Forochel? Show us!
Optional Pain Theme
Your final chance to make someone really sad, ekphrastically, is in the art that people will sacrifice themselves for. In a literal sense, there is trying to save paintings from a fire, or sculptures from a war, perhaps. Alternately, the obsessive drive to keep working, to be better, to exhaust yourself in making your masterpiece, to the detriment of all else.
Optional Joy Theme
There are strong traditions of mentorship, apprenticeship, and communal training among many artisans. Learning in community can be generative and inspiring, creating lifelong bonds and ensuring the safe passage of precious knowledge from generation to generation. For a bit of extra happiness, consider the benefits of cooperative learning and the importance of transferring knowledge down into the future.
A number of examples for your inspiration.
Wood as a substance arguably requires craft from the planting of specific seedings; through the exercise of bonsai, coppicing, daisugi, and other forestry techniques to shape living trees for use; into the cutting and curing of a felled tree; and ultimately to the direct artistic processes of carving, turning on a lathe, engraving, joining, varnishing, and beyond. Longships, netsuke, gyáaʼaang poles, lacquerware, and houses range from the monumental to the intimate artistic uses of wood,. Woodworking and carpentry invite us to consider the border between art and craft, the use of living or once-living materials in art, and the thought of what various characters might do given a chainsaw.
Optional Writing Method Theme
The final optional way to spice up your writing is mock-academic style. Do you think Hobbits write detailed guides for how to restore parquet floors -- such nice additions to a hole? Have Númenorean theologians written impassioned screeds on the religious symbolism of which sort of seabird Elwing appears as in the carved figureheads of the Royal Navy? Do the Noldor care a ton about the history of woodblock printing? Let your inner expert fly free!
Optional Art Method Theme
For those making non-writing art, this year’s final suggestion is in the style of one of Tolkien's peoples. Have you always thought the Blacklock Dwarves of Rhûn had a really distinctive aesthetic? Do you have deeply felt headcanons about the techniques used by master artists in Cardolan? Are you itching to show everyone you're right about the most common materials used for art around the Ice Bay of Forochel? Show us!
Optional Pain Theme
Your final chance to make someone really sad, ekphrastically, is in the art that people will sacrifice themselves for. In a literal sense, there is trying to save paintings from a fire, or sculptures from a war, perhaps. Alternately, the obsessive drive to keep working, to be better, to exhaust yourself in making your masterpiece, to the detriment of all else.
Optional Joy Theme
There are strong traditions of mentorship, apprenticeship, and communal training among many artisans. Learning in community can be generative and inspiring, creating lifelong bonds and ensuring the safe passage of precious knowledge from generation to generation. For a bit of extra happiness, consider the benefits of cooperative learning and the importance of transferring knowledge down into the future.
A number of examples for your inspiration.
