I have called this piece a Golden Mango Bowl, but not because of the colour of the wood. It’s called what it is because of the 24kt gold leaf that I have used to finish the edges. I’ve used copper in the past but this was the first gold. Interestingly, the gold leaf is slightly roughened. I had to made it that way because smooth gold leaf is just a little too blingy. It really doesn’t present very well at all in that way, so to get this Golden Mango Bowl to shine, it needed a bit of rough.
I have finished this particular Golden Mango Bowl to a near glass finish. The reflection of the finish can be seen in the in some of the gallery images below. The Mango timber always produces a stunning result. It does take some effort to achieve so long as you’re prepared to sand, sand and sand.
A word of caution to be very mindful of with Mango timber is bug attacks. Boring beetles and the like absolutely love Mango timber, and why wouldn’t they. So, you have a couple of choices. Either you can spray the timber, or you can make sure it’s completely covered/sealed, until you’re finished with it.
The form of this Golden Mango Bowl is also very appealing. In fact I couldn’t even estimate the number of people that this has drawn in. And, when I say drawn in, I mean they cannot resist the urge to touch it. This is, of course, an intentional tactic that I use. This Bollywood bowl is another example of the same sculptural style as this Golden Mango Bowl.
I wasn’t able to sell this Golden Mango Bowl before I left Australia and I still have it, lucky me.
As with many other posts, I sometimes take the opportunity to add something different to what I publish, and in this case aside from writing about my Golden Mango Bowl I’m going to make this another one of those opportunities.
You don’t have to read this, and if truth is something that you’d rather hide away from, then I suggest that you click on by right about now.
We heard quite a bit about choice after 2021. In particular we heard the word choice used in conjunction with the idea of “vaccine”* mandates.
So, apparently many were, and still are, told the following:
A- Agree to be experimented on at the risk of your life to keep your job.
Or
B – Leave your job.
And to summarise that, you can either risk seriously fucking your life up, or alternatively, seriously risk fucking your life up.
Now, maybe it’s just me, but I’m not seeing a choice there. Sure people were presented with options for their future, but I can tell you now none of what was presented to people was in anyway representative of Choice.
I understand that choice is defined as a list of things to choose from, and I don’t really have a problem with that. However, if that list of things to choose from does not include the option to NOT choose something different, then there is no choice, there are only options.
The ability to “choose” to not change anything in your life absolutely must exist as an option, like I said, otherwise all you are left with are options, and forced “mandated” options at that.
It would seem though that that is considered to be “freedom of choice”, which is bizarre. And it’s bizarre because what quality of choice does one have if there is no freedom to choice, if there is no apparent freedom at all. There is only to do as instructed, much like a prisoner but perhaps in this example, a prisoner with more choice.
So then, I would put it to you that those whom have advocated mandates as having some inherent choice, and having for broadly demanded mandates at all, are criminals.
They are guilty of coercion leading to, in many cases, the deaths of individuals at the sharp end of that coercion.
Personally I would see the death penalty re-established in law and have those whom I have just mentioned, arrested and tried in a court by jury to determine just exactly where it is that we sit with the “choices” that the “government and their corporate masters dole out to the rest of us.
- – It should be pretty clear to everyone by now that that “vaccines” are not and never were actual “vaccines”. They are highly experimental gene therapies that kill and maim people. There are more coming and you’re going to be taking them, unless you wise up.