ARCHIVE OF SOME FISH OF THE PAST, RESIDING WITH HAPPY NEW OWNERS

A small fish made from highly prized spalted wood.  Spalt colors a fish body.  This is from a dead limb of a water oak tree, fallen from a storm.   Another fish lost, then found, and resurrected to a new life as a symbol of more Biblical scriptures and parables then you might imagine.  Now alive and well in a safe home with its story, for how long is anyone's guess.

This little fish was saved from the forest floor and now resides in a new home.  He is a symbol of things passed up and not seen but with patience and care now lives a new life as a reminder of possibilities imagnined.

Highly figured Maple wood. Prized and very expensive.  Lost in the shop for over 40  years. This fish was made from a board I purchased around 1983 or so and I had cut it into a rough shape for an F Style mandolin.   Now resides in a happy home!  She is living a new life as a reminder that what may have been lost and forgotten can be reclaimed as something beautiful.  Art with a story!

A very nice little Gold fish sending the message "think outside the box",  but the Gold fish version.....outside the bowl. 

He has gone on to find a new home.  He was lost but found from scrap wood and lives to serve as many symbols or reminders.   Art with a story!

Meet "IDA"!  Ida belongs to a near and dear friend whom I delight in saying that he is the head of my Fan Club.  Reason being he owns more of my fish than any one person needs.  Ida has a very colorful history.  She began her transition from a Cypress log in May of 2019 and was finished in April of 2020.   Suspended by stout chains she enjoyed embellishing a boat shed near Springfield, LA. 

A school of Stripers heading south.  All once part of a cypress tree.