The Carved Baseball Bats of Peter Schuyff

By John Farrier in Art on Jan 13, 2010 at 9:46 am

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Artist Peter Schuyff, among other activities, carves baseball bats. When asked about the origins of this idea, he wrote:

The whole thing started with carving sticks on my walks. I’ve made long walks in New Guinea, the Amazon, Burma, jungles, I like jungles. At the end of the day there’s not much to do and I started carving sticks while staring off somewhere. Sometimes in the morning I’d climb a tree, bore a hole and put the stick in it. They were about the size of pencils and when I got back to New York I’d carve pencils in front of the television. It was weeks before I left for Vancouver, and in New Guinea I didn’t have much to do. When I got to Vancouver I saw straight away logs and totem poles

Link via DudeCraft | Interview with the Artist


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  1. Peach
    Jan 13th, 2010 at 10:01 am

    Reminds me of the carved crayons by Pete Goldlust

    http://petegoldlust.com/carvedcrayons.html

  2. matt
    Jan 13th, 2010 at 12:01 pm

    i had the displeasure (kidding) of hanging one of peter’s optically-jarring paintings once. a huge painting with some really crazy stuff going on. dizzying.

  3. Gauldar
    Jan 13th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    Baseball is a strange tribal ritual that makes little sense to me.


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