David Svenson
@davidsvenson.bsky.social
Multi media artist with HOPE to heal our earth.
Blue sky isn't very active. Guess many have finished there rant and gone back to Facebook...
I'm keeping BS as a breadth of fresh air for me.
Adventured out to Pisgah Crater and swung by the Bagdad Cafe a few days ago.
I'm keeping BS as a breadth of fresh air for me.
Adventured out to Pisgah Crater and swung by the Bagdad Cafe a few days ago.
March 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Blue sky isn't very active. Guess many have finished there rant and gone back to Facebook...
I'm keeping BS as a breadth of fresh air for me.
Adventured out to Pisgah Crater and swung by the Bagdad Cafe a few days ago.
I'm keeping BS as a breadth of fresh air for me.
Adventured out to Pisgah Crater and swung by the Bagdad Cafe a few days ago.
Have to keep working on the community! Thanks Bruce.
March 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Have to keep working on the community! Thanks Bruce.
Sharpening the rust off my blades to get this project done! Honoring the man in the Raven Clan!! Some beautiful women too!!
March 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sharpening the rust off my blades to get this project done! Honoring the man in the Raven Clan!! Some beautiful women too!!
Haines Alaska last summer.
March 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Haines Alaska last summer.
The issue with the Woodworm was it sat on the concrete floor and was dry rotting as were the posts. Basically a concrete bunker... My dad took the B&W pic's when they opened up 7 of the houses for a variety of museum folks in 1968. He took some great photos.
March 8, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The issue with the Woodworm was it sat on the concrete floor and was dry rotting as were the posts. Basically a concrete bunker... My dad took the B&W pic's when they opened up 7 of the houses for a variety of museum folks in 1968. He took some great photos.
Love those old photos. My carving buddy Cliff Thomas was Ganaxtedi and said the large face is still somewhere in Klukwan. Love to see that show up. It isn't a mask, it is solid. Here are some other shots you have probably seen.
March 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Love those old photos. My carving buddy Cliff Thomas was Ganaxtedi and said the large face is still somewhere in Klukwan. Love to see that show up. It isn't a mask, it is solid. Here are some other shots you have probably seen.
This looks like my photo enlarged. Sadly the woodworm dish was in bad shape and not brought to the new location when the posts and screen were removed. They should have brought the fragments over... Love these works and the family that has been the "caretakers". Son Shion communicating!
March 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This looks like my photo enlarged. Sadly the woodworm dish was in bad shape and not brought to the new location when the posts and screen were removed. They should have brought the fragments over... Love these works and the family that has been the "caretakers". Son Shion communicating!
That is an amazing pic! Those posts were stored in the Whale House for a while. I was asked to photograph the Whale House in 81 when Victor Hotch passed. Berry took those pics without permission and signed his name to them... Bad Karma...
March 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
That is an amazing pic! Those posts were stored in the Whale House for a while. I was asked to photograph the Whale House in 81 when Victor Hotch passed. Berry took those pics without permission and signed his name to them... Bad Karma...
Got my suit! Full swing in 07!
March 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Got my suit! Full swing in 07!
The "Woodworm", Klukwan. Took this photo in 1981.
March 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The "Woodworm", Klukwan. Took this photo in 1981.
My brother in Haines, AK is always cutting down nice size birch and gives it to the local carvers. It's heavy when wet so would be quite a mailing cost! When I taught wood carving at the Academy of Art in SF we went to a tree cutting yard in Oakland and had quite a variety of wood for carvers...?
March 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My brother in Haines, AK is always cutting down nice size birch and gives it to the local carvers. It's heavy when wet so would be quite a mailing cost! When I taught wood carving at the Academy of Art in SF we went to a tree cutting yard in Oakland and had quite a variety of wood for carvers...?
Nice ship builders adze. Good toe chopper! My Japanese chona is magic. Works like the elbow adze except grown to the curve. So cool you got to spend time with Bill Holm!
March 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Nice ship builders adze. Good toe chopper! My Japanese chona is magic. Works like the elbow adze except grown to the curve. So cool you got to spend time with Bill Holm!
"The Activists" 1989.
Time to reactivate activism!
Time to reactivate activism!
February 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"The Activists" 1989.
Time to reactivate activism!
Time to reactivate activism!
Love this krypton crackle tube with Japanese glass chips lighting our kokeshi. Keep the light!
February 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Love this krypton crackle tube with Japanese glass chips lighting our kokeshi. Keep the light!
Good old Earth gave us some much needed rain!
February 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Good old Earth gave us some much needed rain!
Happy Birthday Mr. Lincoln! Hero since age of 8.
February 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Happy Birthday Mr. Lincoln! Hero since age of 8.
Whats the deal with blue sky..? It only allows me a certain amounts of words and up to 4 photo's?? Love my Robert E Wood painting of Deep Creek. Bob was a great person.
February 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Whats the deal with blue sky..? It only allows me a certain amounts of words and up to 4 photo's?? Love my Robert E Wood painting of Deep Creek. Bob was a great person.
Looks like many of my friends who have activated a blue sky due to frustration with facebook are still active on facebook and not posting here on blue sky... Or maybe I am not getting the feeds..? We are pretty much preaching to the choir anyhow so I will keep posting to myself! Cheers!!
February 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Looks like many of my friends who have activated a blue sky due to frustration with facebook are still active on facebook and not posting here on blue sky... Or maybe I am not getting the feeds..? We are pretty much preaching to the choir anyhow so I will keep posting to myself! Cheers!!
You have to choose your "friends". I had a few that were following the same pattern as facebook so i just blocked them. Challenging to stay positive!
February 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
You have to choose your "friends". I had a few that were following the same pattern as facebook so i just blocked them. Challenging to stay positive!
Need to build this community! Create a positive dialog and think Different! Good reads. This is the way we were suppose to think before we were mislead. It is the only help.
February 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Need to build this community! Create a positive dialog and think Different! Good reads. This is the way we were suppose to think before we were mislead. It is the only help.
A few shots of me in Alaska in the early 1980's. It was a good life!
January 31, 2025 at 2:21 AM
A few shots of me in Alaska in the early 1980's. It was a good life!
Still learning how to navigate with Bluesky... Not as easy as Facebook but step by step. I will go back in time with the next pics. I look quite different now...!
January 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Still learning how to navigate with Bluesky... Not as easy as Facebook but step by step. I will go back in time with the next pics. I look quite different now...!
How about some Tlingit thinking illuminated glass this morning!
January 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How about some Tlingit thinking illuminated glass this morning!
Thinking reptile today.
January 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thinking reptile today.