Well, I am still working on the tiki that is supposed to end up looking like me…

I have to admit, I am a little bummed out.

It does cheer me up that my dog, Shiloh, hangs out with me while I am carving…

But, to be honest, I am, it turns out, better at carving weird tikis than carving an actual face. I seem to be off center… my nose ended up too far to the left, somehow. Also, I undercut the nose too far, using a saw to speed things up. Now, I might need to shave the whole thing down an extra half inch… and maybe cut a few inches off the whole right side… but, a large part of art is to just keep going, try to fix it, or turn it into something else.

So I’m not giving up yet.