World Art - Oblivious

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I’ve been working on this one for the past year, and I finished it about 2 months ago. It’s been sitting in my garage waiting for the weather to get warmer so I can varnish it. I had to take it out this past weekend to photograph it for a juried show that’s coming up. It has suddenly become very timely.

I call it “Oblivious”. It’s a commentary on how we can sometimes live our lives while ignoring major problems around us.

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Approximately 300 individual parts were stained and glued in order to make this piece. There are 21 layers of 1/8" Baltic Birch wood.

The whole piece is about 6’ tall. Here’s one of me beside it for scale (I’m 6’ 3").

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Here are a close up of the city and a side shot.

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Your body of work gets better and better. This one is my new favorite.

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Gosh, Ben…I really have run out of words to describe how much I like your art. I hope you sell this and others for a big huge gob of money.

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I am blown away. Love this! I’m amazed a the scale of your creations.

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Wow, that is an impressive piece of art!

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Hugely Impressive, expresses much I have been thinking better than I have been thinking it. Even as I type this the electricity went off and blew out the internet for no discernable reason, and is now back (I hope)

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next level stuff here. most people wouldn’t even consider making something like this, let alone be able to execute it.

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Absolutely amazing!

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wonderful Ben, I agree with Dave, it’s my favorite too. :sunglasses:
After that much work, even though the money is nice… as an artistic type I know how it feels to part with a grown child of your mind.

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WOW! And I just got excited about notebook covers I did. LOL

Great work. Truly inspirational!

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So another amazing piece, but you’re no banana. :grin:

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Best laugh of the day! Thanks for that, I needed it. :laughing:

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That’s just…that’s…wow.

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I still like the first one I’ve seen best, but this one is super awesome too.

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Is this better?

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I take it back. You are a banana. :smile:

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Your pieces are always incredible! The first cityscape I saw of yours it what made me fall in love with the GF.

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Wow!

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Add my voice to the chorus of wows!

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Mind blowing!

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