James Drury, Sandringham, VIC

Pyramid Box
Huon pine, silky oak
600 h x 150mm base

Method of Construction:
It is a layered construction of Huon pine and silky oak. The construction involved several stages of stacking and glueing alternating slabs of each timber, and then cutting them in half, and rotating the two sections and reglueing, and then cutting those sections in half again, rotating and regluing – all in all, a quite laborious process, in order to create the alternating quadrants of timber on each level. When the final column of sections was glued to its full height, the piece was shaped on a lathe, and divided to create a hollow base to form a box.
Concept:
This was inspired from a piece displayed in a previous AWR, which displayed a complex array of alternating timber slices in a pyramid, but without the box component.

Photos: James Drury