The Treehouse Diaries #3: Bertha comes alive!
Written on April 17, 2009
Bertha / Photo by Nick Weston
I hate working with metal, it’s cold and impersonal. I much prefer wood: its warm and friendly and gives off the air that it is content with being shaped when you draw a blade or saw to it. Metal on the other hand gets pissed off as soon as you go near it with a power tool, it screams out in a most aggressive way. I knew that making Bertha a reality was going to be difficult for me.
Once I had stolen Bertha away from her life as an oil skivvy, she had to be ritually cleansed. To achieve this I had to light a fire in her belly to remove all the oil from her past life.
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The Treehouse Diaries #3: Bertha comes alive!
Bertha / Photo by Nick Weston
I hate working with metal, it’s cold and impersonal. I much prefer wood: its warm and friendly and gives off the air that it is content with being shaped when you draw a blade or saw to it. Metal on the other hand gets pissed off as soon as you go near it with a power tool, it screams out in a most aggressive way. I knew that making Bertha a reality was going to be difficult for me.
Once I had stolen Bertha away from her life as an oil skivvy, she had to be ritually cleansed. To achieve this I had to light a fire in her belly to remove all the oil from her past life.
Continue reading this article @ HUNTER GATHERING: Wild & Fresh Food
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