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About the Artist
Really at the crux of it all, everyone's story begins with a journey through a lifetime of possibility, potential and perspective. I tend to find mine taking me into nature quite a bit because it is there I get to wander both in body and in mind.
I grew up on a small lake in Minnesota, smack in the heart of Garrison Keillor's mystical and unbeknownst to many, a very much real Lake Wobegon. It didn't take me too long to discover that the imagine of a kid coupled with a bit of time, patience, and ingenuity, can result a much more enriching journey. My first job to fill the time was waiting tables at a restaurant Keillor recently bought and renovated, right on my childhood lake. My patience have always been thin, which is why the concept of mind and body help bring me back into balance daily be it through a jog around the trails where I now live in Sacramento, or spending a bit of time meditating while creating new carvings. The ingenuity part took a bit longer though.
I started carving wood as a kid. I had found a jacknife in my pop's woodshop. He was a carpenter and I was hardly interested in being bothered by the craft. I wish now I would have spent more time with him crafting and creating things because the learning curve took quite a bit longer as an adult. The perspective I have now makes me yearn to be there with him, covered in sawdust and smile, much like I actually find myself these days when creating the sculptures on this site.
There is something I just love about the smell of nature. I have a terrible sense of smell, but for some reason freshly cut wood is something that permeates the air for me, and in doing so breathes of extraordinary potential. I create the sculptures you see on this site because leaving potential alone is not enough for me. Where there is possibility, I believe so too should there be action and creation.
~ Shawn Boom
I grew up on a small lake in Minnesota, smack in the heart of Garrison Keillor's mystical and unbeknownst to many, a very much real Lake Wobegon. It didn't take me too long to discover that the imagine of a kid coupled with a bit of time, patience, and ingenuity, can result a much more enriching journey. My first job to fill the time was waiting tables at a restaurant Keillor recently bought and renovated, right on my childhood lake. My patience have always been thin, which is why the concept of mind and body help bring me back into balance daily be it through a jog around the trails where I now live in Sacramento, or spending a bit of time meditating while creating new carvings. The ingenuity part took a bit longer though.
I started carving wood as a kid. I had found a jacknife in my pop's woodshop. He was a carpenter and I was hardly interested in being bothered by the craft. I wish now I would have spent more time with him crafting and creating things because the learning curve took quite a bit longer as an adult. The perspective I have now makes me yearn to be there with him, covered in sawdust and smile, much like I actually find myself these days when creating the sculptures on this site.
There is something I just love about the smell of nature. I have a terrible sense of smell, but for some reason freshly cut wood is something that permeates the air for me, and in doing so breathes of extraordinary potential. I create the sculptures you see on this site because leaving potential alone is not enough for me. Where there is possibility, I believe so too should there be action and creation.
~ Shawn Boom
Shawn Boom has been creating wood sculptures for the past 18 years and has been working in the Mind Body and Health/Fitness industry since 1998. He lives in Sacramento, CA with his wife, Bethany and two pugs Killian and Bailey.
