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" This guitar illustrates a life "
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Grand Concert Custom Order Inlay Detail inspired by Grit Laskin. This guitar tells a story of a man who has done much learning, but has managed to preserve and grow, the artist, sportsman, philosopher, healer, musician and man within. This is the storybook of his life to date, beginning on the headstock with the "Book" which is this life, and flowing into the "Soccer boots" via the thread, that is in all our lives, and that for him recalls his youth as a champion Junior soccer player. This flows via the laces/life thread, into his "Palette of colours" that he used on his last painting, the red, dripping from the palette indicates the blood spilt in his journey, and as a healer, a changing adventure day by day. He is a fine guitar player, philosopher and musician. The bird symbolizes the freedom that he feels having achieved and crossed these major threshholds in his life. The infinity sign links the music that he makes and the songs that he sings. The open books circling the soundhole are many lives past and future, spiralling out of the music and his dance of life. Thank you, Paul, for the opportunity to create your story on this unique guitar for you. The inlays were cut and inlayed under my direction by my apprentice Colin, a fine young silversmith and artist.The client commissioned a Chinese artist Wang Peng who drew all the pictures, I then rearranged them for inlay. My daughter Lucinda, a student of art, suggested that all the images appear on pages (ivory) falling out of his book, she was present with myself and the client at all meetings and it was a pleasure to have such a young and creative mind involved. |
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