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L'amour en cageby ~Maylar

Artisan Crafts / Woodworking

My friend Maat loves l'amour en cage, the most beautiful name physalis has...and that name inspired me to make a hollow heart with a little ball inside, symbolizing imprisoned or kept love, whatever you like it more. Maat visited me recently and I carved this for him

This is done in a single piece of cherry wood, general height is around 4.5 cm (1.77). When I say single piece of wood, I mean single...ball was carved from the insides, not somehow added later. And yes, it moves fully. It's a process much alike to carving ball in the cube and similar things. And it was a pain in the, hm...behind to do it, especially to make it smooth. But we do things like this for our friends, right?

On these photos, wood is already sanded on the outside and so is the ball, but the insides are still rough...it's because my friend liked it that way so it will probably stay like that.

You can see a really bad quality video of this on YT (sorry for the quality, it's pulled from a cell phone camera and even my usual camera is better than this...but, it is the only video of this I have). It is added mostly so you can see the ball moves :
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All in all, hope you like it

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~Liennepien Oct 26, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

That is very sweet and beautiful, very well done!

~Maylar Oct 28, 2010 Professional General Artist

Thank you, glad you like it

~loonymoon101 Oct 25, 2010

sweet

~Maylar Oct 28, 2010 Professional General Artist

~loonymoon101 Oct 31, 2010

n___n

`petrova Oct 24, 2010 Hobbyist

Such a great idea and, as usual, fantastic craftsmanship!

~Maylar Oct 24, 2010 Professional General Artist

Thank you

*Madelei Oct 23, 2010 Student General Artist

wow, that's incredible! kinda reminds me of a little peach pit

~Maylar Oct 23, 2010 Professional General Artist

I'm glad if it gives that resemblance, I love seeing peach pits, they're so special

And thank you, glad you like it

~liesan Oct 23, 2010 Student Artisan Crafter

Very beautiful! Watching your dA page is bad for me I finally had myself focusing on bookbinding for the time being and now you make me want to pick up all matter of art and crafts again

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