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Derek and Doug Weidman | Guardian's Keep, 2025

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Derek and Doug Weidman | Guardian's Keep, 2025
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Derek and Doug Weidman,Harleysville, Pennsylvania
Guardian's Keep, 2025
Koa, cherry, holly
7 x 6 x 6 inches | 17.8 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm

As a child, I looked to my father for the “hows” in life—his hands fixed problems, built worlds, gave shape to ideas. He often took over my projects, until I learned to finish them myself. Now, he struggles to carve like he did, so I made the ring-turned animals, doing my best in his style. The box he turned came out a bit large, but I couldn’t bring myself to alter it. Like his work in my life, the box he made is at the heart of what I do now. Unchanged, a wooden legacy, for me to add to.
Derek Weidman, b. 1982, lives in rural Pennsylvania. Initially studying philosophy in college, but a born artist, he choose to follow in the path of his father, Doug Weidman b. 1944 who was a bird carver and turner himself. When he began turning, he approached the lathe as a sculptor, primarily exploring and pushing the boundaries of multi-axis turning with a mixture of german ring turning added in. His main effort was trying to create a visually descriptive and versatile language born out of the arcing and circular cuts of a lathe. At the heart of his work he treats the lathe almost as an unusual camera, with every subject passing through its lens adding to a visually novel circular zoo of wildlife.

Doug Weidman established the legacy of carving and turning, along with a life immersed in nature for himself and his family.