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Journal: sometime in 1978
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Art as Purpose

Walnut Table: I designed a marble-top table during my early PhD program at Purdue around a piece of marble that Susie had picked up somewhere. I built the table at the end the program out of walnut and structural cypress boards in my Dad’s workshop in the basement of the “farm” at Mt. Summit. I hand-chiseled tongue and groove fittings for the leg attachments. Walnut is easy to chisel tiny shavings along the grain, but difficult across the grain. I still use the table in 2020 as my main front-room table.

Table Design