Wood coasters, 'Thai Elephants'
Wood coasters, 'Thai Elephants'
Framed by clouds, elephants scale the forested hillsides. The handsome males lift their trunks inquisitively as they survey their domain. Thiva Boonnak portrays them in glowing repouss� to adorn a set of coasters. She applies pitch to a sheet of aluminum and embosses the motifs by hand. Once the work is engraved, she heats the sheet to remove the pitch and plunges it into a bath of boiling acid. She then washes it in a tamarind fruit solution and polishes it. The repouss� panel is affixed to the rain tree wood disks. She presents the set in a mango wood box.
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