THE CARVER

MATT DILLON

I’ve always been into timber work and my boat building apprenticeship heightened that interest, but during a trip to Hawaii in 2015 I saw this friendly-faced Hawaiian man carving a Tiki in a back alley market in Waikiki. He was wearing a singlet, shorts and thongs, sitting by himself on a mat with a few small Tikis in front of him. The log was held with his feet while he chipped into the log, I bought a Tiki off him. I didn’t ask many questions, but while I was watching him a large chip of timber came off which wasn’t supposed to. I remember asking him if he’d glue it back in, or re-shape it to compensate for the missing chip, to which he replied, “Nope, the tree didn’t want…

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