{"title":"Fractal Bowls","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eEvery Fractal bowl starts the way ours always have: turned from solid Michigan hardwood. Then artist Mike Wasner sends electricity through the wood, and the pattern finds its own path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Partnership:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMike Wasner picked up woodworking as a creative outlet after retiring from a lifetime of farming. What began with hand-stripped walking sticks, dried a full year to keep them from cracking, grew into a signature process: burning fractal patterns into wood with electricity. He's been putting that process into HBM bowls for a while now. What comes out of it is never quite plannable, and that's the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat Fractal Woodburning Is:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt starts with a conductive solution, brushed onto the wood. Then Mike runs electricity through it: about 12,500 volts, through two probes. The current burns its own path from one probe to the other, branching as it travels. Nobody, Mike included, decides exactly where it goes. What's left behind is called a Lichtenberg figure, named for the lightning-shaped burns it makes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0668\/0448\/2147\/collections\/Mike_Fractal_Woodburning.jpg?v=1790950836","url":"https:\/\/hollandbowlmill.com\/collections\/fractal-bowls.oembed","provider":"Holland Bowl Mill","version":"1.0","type":"link"}