
Studios of Neptune
The Art and Photography
of
Samuel Howard Whitman
Spirit Discs - Tiny Format Woodburnings
































































































Sam discovers the compositional elements as each disc is created - determined partly by which nib he happens to have on his woodburning pen. The rest is decided by entering the state of mind so often discussed in creative and religious theory where the artist becomes a channel for something beyond their own individual intentions. The loss of egoic interference over the composition is the goal. Some reach the goal and some don't and after the moment is forgotten it's quite impossible to tell the difference of which is which. They're made in batches from crosscuts of a standard dowel, are about the size of a silver dollar and are double sided. He originally made about 150.