Patrick J's Imagination

Whether it's a sketch of a kitchen floor plan or a unique shaped board, I somehow can see the finished product in my mind as clearly as a photograph. Using that, I immediately know where I'm going and only have to decide how to get there. More often than not, I look at a piece of wood and then figure out something to build out of it. I've recently found a hollow tree on my mother's property which I cut into one foot sections and am combining that with some interesting knotty oak I found earlier at an Amish lumber yard in Wisconsin and a burled, natural edged, cherry "banana" board to create an eight foot wine rack and bar. I store interesting boards along the wall or someplace I can keep an eye on them and will sometimes walk by them for days, months, or years before the inspiration strikes me and everything falls into place. I try to work the same way in some of my photography. To be sure, if an interesting scene or flower presents itself I will take the picture, but then I try to see what small detail really calls out to me. Sometimes it's a bud, sometimes it's a bird beak peeking from behind a feeder. More often than not it's the way the sun or fog falls on a leaf, a tree, or a river. Occasionally it's the glint of an eye... I hope you enjoy my visions and my imagination. It's been fun for me and I hope I can make it fun for you..."