bowls

You guys have got to see this. Wooden bowls. Lathed bowls. Bowls and bowls and bowls and more bowls, and logs, and more bowls, and wood burls, and bowls from gnarled wood, and patterns in bowls, and stains, and bowls and bowls sets, bowls from the arm of a tree, and tree trunks, and bowls and bark and more bowls, and salad bowls and cereal bowls, and wooden service bowls, candy bowls, wooden fruit bowls, bowls to toss salads in and bowls to eat salads from, bowls that stack bowls that are exactly the same except different, soup bowls, bowls that are different yet similar, bowls in a row. Bowls with flaws on purpose, bowls that are perfect. Bowls with raw edges, thick bowls, thin bowls, shallow bowls, and deep bowls, large and small bowls, refined bowls. Patterned bowls, plain bowls. Swirls and knots, and gnarls, and splatting, irregularities, grain pattern and colors and nail holes.

And framed designs such as could fit into a window, or possibly an air duct grate, like a sun with swirled rays that could be a comet, that when fitted with a twin backwards, back to back produce a pattern seen through holes of a pattern such that triggers serious cases of trypophobia. They're trippy. And there are a lot of them. They look like they could be fitted with stained glass. An art form not seen before.

You just have to see this for yourself. And you'll go, one man did all this? No really. Are you serious? In one lifetime? He must have eighteen arms and work day and night for five lifetimes.  Like this guy, the famous Hindu god, Varnishawudbowli. Tru fax.

Sixty Grit sent me a link to his Flickr account and my eyeballs could not believe what they saw. So they just sat there in awe and gazed and marveled. Stupefied humbled and shamed. Page after page after page of simply the most amazing bowl collection I've ever seen. I didn't even see them all. I fell out from exhaustion just looking. 

And then I go look at my one single salad serving bowl that I bought from a vendor on eBay with a gigantic crack in it and I go, "You should be ashamed of yourself. I hate you now. Go sit in your corner and think about your shortcomings." 

Go look at them, right now, and see for yourself. Then you'll come back here and say, "Chip, why did you understate things?"