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This Coolibah was a real challenge. Heavily off-balance, it wanted to jump off the lathe! I decided to execute a very sharp direction change by creating a cup inside the bowl. It really shows off a different grain structure at the transition, which is what I was hoping to achieve with it. I had a gallery visitor ask me what I would "do" with it (like put dip in the middle, perhaps?). I laughed and said (more or less), "I just enjoy it as art. I don't really want it to be 'good' for anything necessarily, but the collector can pretty do as he or she pleases with a piece like this."