The salvage yard

The trees waiting to become.

Every piece starts here: a Manitoba tree that was coming down anyway, cut, hauled, and resting in the yard until the wood tells me what it wants to be. These are their records. When a piece is carved from one of them, it inherits its tree's whole story.

Count a century.

This is the St. Vital ash, read from the heart outward. Move your finger across the rings. Every ring is a year that actually happened in Winnipeg.

End grain of the St. Vital ash
·
Touch the wood to begin.
Ages are approximate until the rings are formally counted. The years are real either way.

The registry

Four trees on file so far, each with its end grain photographed the day it entered the yard. Cut years on record; exact streets being added.

Oak
St. Boniface · cut 2024
Tight, patient rings. Open its record →
Russian Olive
Saskatchewan Avenue · cut 2023
Hollow-hearted, sculptural. The source of the olive pieces. Open its record →
Ash
Gimli · cut 2023
Lake country wood. Open its record →
Ash
St. Vital · cut 2025
The cleanest rings in the yard. Open its record →

These become pieces. The list hears first.

Join the list