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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Blue sky isn't very active. Guess many have finished there rant and gone back to Facebook... I'm keeping BS as a breadth of fresh air for me. Adventured out to Pisgah Crater and swung by the Bagdad Cafe a few days ago.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Have to keep working on the community! Thanks Bruce.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

For three letters it is a big word. But so is God... For me as an artist, it is a verb, a process of creating. Whatever comes out of it is up to others to call it what they wish.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sharpening the rust off my blades to get this project done! Honoring the man in the Raven Clan!! Some beautiful women too!!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The issue with the Woodworm was it sat on the concrete floor and was dry rotting as were the posts. Basically a concrete bunker... My dad took the B&W pic's when they opened up 7 of the houses for a variety of museum folks in 1968. He took some great photos.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Love those old photos. My carving buddy Cliff Thomas was Ganaxtedi and said the large face is still somewhere in Klukwan. Love to see that show up. It isn't a mask, it is solid. Here are some other shots you have probably seen.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This looks like my photo enlarged. Sadly the woodworm dish was in bad shape and not brought to the new location when the posts and screen were removed. They should have brought the fragments over... Love these works and the family that has been the "caretakers". Son Shion communicating!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

That is an amazing pic! Those posts were stored in the Whale House for a while. I was asked to photograph the Whale House in 81 when Victor Hotch passed. Berry took those pics without permission and signed his name to them... Bad Karma...

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The "Woodworm", Klukwan. Took this photo in 1981.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

My brother in Haines, AK is always cutting down nice size birch and gives it to the local carvers. It's heavy when wet so would be quite a mailing cost! When I taught wood carving at the Academy of Art in SF we went to a tree cutting yard in Oakland and had quite a variety of wood for carvers...?

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Have to get the rust off those blades!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Nice ship builders adze. Good toe chopper! My Japanese chona is magic. Works like the elbow adze except grown to the curve. So cool you got to spend time with Bill Holm!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Hard on the wrist! But nice tool. Leif spring steel. Elbow adze is the answer!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Wouldn't let me send a pic... Weak connection..

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Just scanned a D adze I made in the 70's. Traded it to somebody..!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"The Activists" 1989. Time to reactivate activism!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Thanks Bill. Neon/Raku Solstice party on June 21st!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What is going on with the side tubulation..?

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Love this krypton crackle tube with Japanese glass chips lighting our kokeshi. Keep the light!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Be nice for a upper face in a tinnah.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Good old Earth gave us some much needed rain!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Happy Birthday Mr. Lincoln! Hero since age of 8.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Whats the deal with blue sky..? It only allows me a certain amounts of words and up to 4 photo's?? Love my Robert E Wood painting of Deep Creek. Bob was a great person.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Looks like many of my friends who have activated a blue sky due to frustration with facebook are still active on facebook and not posting here on blue sky... Or maybe I am not getting the feeds..? We are pretty much preaching to the choir anyhow so I will keep posting to myself! Cheers!!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Thanks Eve, I tapped to the left!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Is the comment bubble what i am writing you on now? What empty space?...

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

You have to choose your "friends". I had a few that were following the same pattern as facebook so i just blocked them. Challenging to stay positive!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Need to build this community! Create a positive dialog and think Different! Good reads. This is the way we were suppose to think before we were mislead. It is the only help.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A few shots of me in Alaska in the early 1980's. It was a good life!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Still learning how to navigate with Bluesky... Not as easy as Facebook but step by step. I will go back in time with the next pics. I look quite different now...!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

First two photos are a collaborative piece artist John Hagen and I made for the Haines Public Library honoring the donor's titled "Helping Hands". Third pic is a close up of Chihuly's Eye from the Founders Pole on the Pilchuck Glass School campus. Last is "The Box of Daylight". All back lit neon.

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

How about some Tlingit thinking illuminated glass this morning!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I will keep my posts as artful and forward thinking as I can making it a sanctuary for positivity. Keeping politics away leaving that for my facebook page to vent! So don't worry. be happy!

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David Svenson @davidsvenson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My sweetheart wife Kazumi just got back from visiting her mom and sister in Japan and took a pic of this graphic. it says something like "You throw away your trash and you think know one is watching??". Brings me back to my youth "Give a hoot, don't pollute!"