{"id":1567,"date":"2013-10-30T22:59:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T22:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter-395686539008942080-post"},"modified":"2016-04-12T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:47:53","slug":"black-juju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/black-juju\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Juju"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here’s a piece that we finished just in time for Halloween that we like to call ‘Black Juju, A Place Where Bad Dreams Go’. <\/p>\n

Heavily inspired by the Alice Cooper<\/a> song of the same name and it’s dark references<\/a> this hollow form was completely textured, carved and dyed (or is that died? :)) black. A ring of sharp “teeth” circle the vessel’s opening creating a ‘trap’ for nightmares, bumps in the night and the occasional woodturner’s finger (woodturners have a nasty habit of sticking their fingers in another turners work to check out the workmanship :)). A friend of ours once commented that it looks like a black poppy and when viewed from the top it certainly does! Indeed! This added another layer to the concept of this piece. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

The piece is made of Maple and is approximately 12″ in diameter and 3″ tall.<\/p>\n

Here are some more photos:<\/p>\n

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The song ‘Black Juju’ was included on the Alice Cooper band’s first commercially successful album, ‘Love It To Death’ which was released in 1971 and has been a favourite album of ours since then (Oh youth, where has doth gone?). Some of our fave songs from the album includes ‘Caught In A Dream’, ‘Is It My Body’, ‘I’m Eighteen’, ‘Ballad Of Dwight Fry’ and, of course, ‘Black Juju’:<\/div>\n