A life in the grain.

Story by Clif Travers

“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
— Richard Powers, The Overstory ‘

Sculptor Travis Bullard listens to trees. “They’re still alive, long after they appear to be dead,” he says. “I don’t start out knowing what to carve. The wood tells me what it should be. I just listen.”

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