Pipe-Terre Globe Pipe by Ryszard Kulpinski

[johnnyreb]

While researching yesterday I stumbled upon Ryszard Kulpinski's "Globe Pipe" with pipe support. I'm sure some of you have probably seen this before. It might even be in someone's collection here. Kulpinski in his carving has featured "guilloching ocean waves", has given Cuba an "unusual topographic importance" some think inline with his political leanings, and brings Greece & Turkey into the same subcontinent again inline with his political idealism.

Beautiful work! But where's Atlantis?

 

[ejames]

That is cool,even if the geography is a bit off ! Atlantis is 50 miles SE of Morocco.

 

[johnnyreb]

Thanks ejames.
Last post. And I'll just add it to this one since it didn't go over very well anyway & it's the same general theme.
Here is Tom Eltag's planet pipe named "Saturn". Using Bruyere root to make up the 6 rings of Saturn Eltang has also included the use of gold as some of the debris of the rings, and has used Ivory & silver representing just some of the moons & natural satellites orbiting the planet.

The sandblast details a planet complete with craters, mountains & valleys. In a smooth version the Bruyere truly makes you think of the possibility of continents & oceans on the surface.