Whisper Dorado

This spectacular standing sculpture has guested in the lobby of The New York Design Center. It"s character and stature are overwhelming with the finest and rarest of crystals and gem...

This is an incredible one of a kind work created as wall decor. It is wall mounted in an organic shape which looks wonderful against a modern wall. It's wood is the finest Claro Waln...

This Wall-mounted one of a kind crystal and gemstone work is set into the finest Claro Walnut Wood. It's crystal & gemstone inlays include rare specimens of Gemmy Cabalto Calcite, Rh...

This piece is a showstopper with an overwhelmingly beautiful presence. It is made of the finest Maple with rare crystal and gemstone inlays. The work was all handmade and its glossed...

Pair of wooden painted corbels from New Mexico circa 1940. Each measures 32 x 7 ¼ x 17 ¼ inches.

American Ash is currently experiencing a catastrophic blight caused by the emerald ash borer, a non-native beetle thought to have been brought to America in shipping materials from overseas while in a dormant state. This hanging piece is a bookmatched of two 1/16” slices of Ash, unique in color, figure and shape. The 26 Ash strips are woven together using organic remnant silk as the weft threads in a three over one herringbone pattern, the same pattern used in the famous burial shroud, the Shroud of Turin. The frame is handmade by the artist in black painted Ash. Drawing from both historical weaving patterns and their applications as well as from series of tree related biological blights and human driven near-extinction events, this series of sculptures, one of which is available for purchase here, asks about our ability to recognize and heal the harms we cause. Can we bind the things we are actively tearing apart and recognize our fragile reliance on the very thing we are damaging before it is too late? Each piece of wood used in this collection came from an ecologically and environmentally sound source. Blending textile and tree in woven panels of wood, each from a dead or dying species, they have been bound back together with silk utilizing the three- hop pattern found in the Shroud of Turin, questioning whether these will be the stitches to heal our damages or the burial shroud they will be wrapped it. There are three sculptures which have been created in this series to date. In addition to Ash, Moran has woven one in Chestnut and one in Redwood Root. Please contact us for more information. Weaving, inverting, book-matching, layering and framing become an act of contemplation in Michael James Moran...