About Free & Bound
The Creative Project
The Creative Project
The Creative Project
Free and Bound is a creative project that centers around fine art pieces carefully crafted from select specimens of wood. Most materials are currently sourced from urban trees in the San Francisco Bay area. Free and Bound is a reference to the relationship between water and wood. Free water is that which easily escapes wood by evaporation
Free and Bound is a creative project that centers around fine art pieces carefully crafted from select specimens of wood. Most materials are currently sourced from urban trees in the San Francisco Bay area. Free and Bound is a reference to the relationship between water and wood. Free water is that which easily escapes wood by evaporation. Bound water is more tightly held within the wood's cell walls.
When hearing this term for the first time, I was immediately struck with the beauty of that concept. Everything in life is free, yet bound at the same time. We are free in the United States but bound to the laws of our land. We have free will as human beings, yet our own moral structures bound us to certain codes of what's right and wrong. Free and Bound is a term that can be used to express so much, which makes it the perfect label for my creative project.
The Artist
The Creative Project
The Creative Project
My name is Jason Shirar.
As a child who was always captivated by nature, it was no surprise that I ended up studying Forestry. Upon achieving my Bachelors in Urban Forest Mgmt, I moved to Northern California and became an arborist in the San Francisco Bay area. My hobby of wood carving began in 2009 but started to pick up speed once I was
My name is Jason Shirar.
As a child who was always captivated by nature, it was no surprise that I ended up studying Forestry. Upon achieving my Bachelors in Urban Forest Mgmt, I moved to Northern California and became an arborist in the San Francisco Bay area. My hobby of wood carving began in 2009 but started to pick up speed once I was introduced to the various tree species that grow here in the bay. On a daily basis, I was introduced to grain patterns and colors within wood I had never encountered. While time and space is always a limitation, the plethora of wood I have to work with has led to a point where my craft is perfected enough to share it with the world.
The Art
The Creative Project
The Art
My signature carvings are all mushroom inspired. As the fruiting body of fungus, their natural variation of color, structure, and size are endless. Wood has an equally impressive variation of patterns and colors and blending the two together, is something I can hardly imagine ever getting old. Due to the composition of wood, every time a
My signature carvings are all mushroom inspired. As the fruiting body of fungus, their natural variation of color, structure, and size are endless. Wood has an equally impressive variation of patterns and colors and blending the two together, is something I can hardly imagine ever getting old. Due to the composition of wood, every time a curve is made in a piece, the grain displays itself differently. This makes the flowing form of a mushroom, my favorite way to show the beauty inside that which was once a living organism, rooted in the ground and breathing in the air.