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Daniel Mack has been working with natural materials for 30 years. For twenty years, he made rustic furniture and art furniture. Many of his chairs are in museum collections. In the early 1990s he began doing architectural construction and detailing and continues to do this work.
In the last five years, he has started carving pieces of bark he collects along the Hudson River. He calls this the Anima Series. These are moody, ambiguous pieces which reflect the shadow nature of our personal lives and that of our country at war.
He has begun a new series on Imaginal Tools. He believes that there are many tasks to be done in the world if only the right tool were available. He has begun to make such tools --from driftwood, cat's whiskers, feathers and seaweed. In time, the purposes of these tools will reveal themselves. Until then, they are kept in tool pouches on the wall. Recently, one such tool (containing a large African porcupine quill) was discovered to be quite effective in helping a person 'get more attention'. Local psychotherapists are a bit worried about losing business to Mack's Imaginal Tool Company.
He has also begun making Imaginal Trading Cards... small collages done in a slightly altered state of mind. They are visual messages from Elsewhere. They seem to gather themselves in 'suits'. He's just started doing these on-line with others.
He teaches about his art and craft at schools and events around the country, particularly the Woodlanders Gatherings in Wisconsin and New York each summer. He is on the faculty of The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY. He has written seven books, four of which describe the various ways to make rustic furniture.
All work can be returned for full refund, less any shipping /insurance costs, within one month of purchase
