DANIEL GARGETT

WOOD

DHARAWAL COUNTRY

Thirroul

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Daniel Gargett (Spoon Baba) is a spoon carver and great cook. 

He makes his spoons from hand tools only (a saw and a few carving knives).

The wood comes from the branches of storm fallen trees he's gathered on bush walks, or are prunings of peoples own trees. 

 

“One aspect of carving spoons I love is that my daughter, gets to see me doing real work. She wants to be a part of it. She wants to learn to carve. It’s so wholesome to be following a craft that the whole family can be involved in.

I shape the wood and the wood shapes me.”

- Daniel

How does it feel to be working with your hands?

 

'I feel it is extremely important to me. I feel like so much of modern life is in the mind and that is something that really gets to me, it bothers me. I have always been drawn to crafts and art and ways of living that incorporate natural movement and using my hands because like I said earlier, it allows me to get out of the mind and tap into a more primal part of myself, a deeper place within myself that cuts away all the modern bullshit that suffocates our lives.

 

I love to see the scars I have from learning, from the slips and mistakes. I have calluses on my hands which act like I am wearing a glove. I shape the wood and the wood shapes me. Using my hands is a privilege, they were made to be used.'

 

- Daniel

@spoon.baba

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