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Center-peace

Dimensions (mm):
1200/1200/450
Wood:
Black walnut
Finish: oil/wax
2019

This table is directly inspired by the "interior architecture of a tree", as can be seen in this photo of a dead tree trunk taken by Buschmann to illustrate it. In it we see that its interior has been decomposing over time and the union of the branches on the inside has been exposed, which, contrary to what the eye tells us, are not "hanging"from the outside but are connected in the centre where they originate. Another inspiration for this table is the work of Giuseppe Penone whose work cannot be explained without the tree and whom Buschmann sees as an archaeological artist who excavates the tree layer by layer until he finds its origins. In a more metaphysical way there are certain connections with Goethe's Faust in his "desperate" search for the essence of life in order to find "inner-peace"... "If it were given to me to know what the world contains in its entrails". As a more anecdotal but useful way of understanding the background to this table-piece, which is in itself wood and tree in a constant process of revelation, Buschmann often tells this detail. The table was made in the author's workshop in Galicia with a perfectly circular surface measuring 120cm in diameter. After spending a few months in Madrid, where the humidity is drastically different, the top shrunk by just 1cm in width and for that the perfect circle becam an oval, something imperceptible to the naked eye but verifiable when measured. According to the author, it is a detail that illustrates very well the problem of finding "perfection" when working with something that is dynamic. The dynamism of the wood has technical and aesthetic implications.

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