Friday, December 4th, 2009
Photo by Betty Lawrence/The Daily Standard

This 3-inch, ribbon-patterned egg made by Ray Feltz was selected for a national art gallery in St. Paul, Minn. The egg is made up of more than 2,000 pieces of wood that Feltz glued together.

Related online story:
The passion of Ray Feltz - or obsession as he sometimes calls it - is a form of artwork called segmented woodturning. In this craft, thousands of minute pieces of various kinds of wood are precisely cut and glued together to form one-of-a-kind ornaments, bowls, trinket boxes and other pieces of art. [More]
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