Lotus Box
$149
Made to order: 2 weeks
A closed lotus bud that opens into a small keeping-box, for rings, a letter, a single photograph.
A closed lotus bud that opens into a small keeping-box, for rings, a letter, a single photograph. Signed on the reverse and sent with a certificate documenting the artisan, timber and carving time.
The story of this piece
2 weeks,one pair of hands
It began as a board of mahogany, chosen in [Village] for the straightness of its grain. The Nelum was drawn freehand onto the timber without a template, using only the forms [Artisan name] learned at a parent's bench.
Then came the slow part: weeks of cutting, the background lowered a millimetre at a time until the figure stood free. Finally oil, a signature on the reverse, and a record of everything that went into it.
