Faces of the Future No. 3 A130807 each with their own elegant

each with their own elegant charm

Additional detailed carving along the tail is done with a rotary carver

to create works that are observational studies of the change of seasons

the surface glows with shifting light

Faces of the Future No. 3 A130807 each with their own elegantThe "Faces of the Future" series is a collaboration between wood artist Erik Wolken and Chapel Hill, NC, based painter and mixed media artist Gray Griffin. The inspiration for the series came from Alex Wagner's book "FutureFace," about growing up in America of mixed ethnic background. The artists sought to create a series of abstract sculptural masks exploring that idea. They are constructed from laminated and carved oriented strand board, paint, and