Laflamme, Gaston biography |
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Biography The idea to use culled wood to make useful objects came from a Swedish cabinetmaker whom I met in 1991. We had visited his workshop after a field trip on scleroderris canker in northern Sweden. He was leaving spruce logs on the ground to make sure that that blue stain fungus would colour the wood. He was making lamps, furniture, out of it. He has even decorated the inside of his SAAB with this type of wood. My workshop being small, I work on small pieces of wood to make clocks, for example. I like very much black cherry, mainly because of the cherry tree black knot caused by a pathogen; but I have also used cankers (scleroderris and nectria cankers), wood invaded by red butt rot, yellow birch with wavy fibers; I like to use bird's-eye maple. I have been a forest pathologist at the Laurentian Forestry Centre since 1981. Since 1995, I have been making clocks inlaid in recycled wood. |
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