Blowflies and Maggots

© Susan Dorothea White

Blowflies and Maggots (Soundboard Rose in Harpsichord) 1983
carved beech
10 cm (dia.) x 0.6 cm
Private collection, Australia

Artist's Statement:

For the sound-hole, I designed a hexagon pattern based on blowflies and maggots – a typically Australian motif. Carved with a scalpel at the kitchen table, the rose was my first woodcarving since childhood.

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