{"id":3243,"date":"2012-12-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:13","slug":"aj-fosik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/aj-fosik\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: AJ Fosik"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m incredibly impressed by anyone who can manipulate and sculpt wood into anything more than a sharp point. These pieces from AJ Fosik<\/a> have been on my radar for awhile, transforming the traditional hunting trophies by layering hundreds of wooden pieces to form these confrontational bestial sculptures saturated in a psychedelic color palette.\u00a0\"ifiswallowsomething_ajfosik\"<\/a> \"samsquanch_ajfosik\"<\/a> \"tonguesblackassticks_ajfosik\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m incredibly impressed by anyone who can manipulate and sculpt wood into anything more than a sharp point. These pieces from AJ Fosik have been on my radar for awhile, transforming the traditional hunting trophies by layering hundreds of wooden pieces to form these confrontational bestial sculptures saturated in a psychedelic color palette.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,102],"tags":[544,37,125,1870,23],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-sculpture","tag-aj-fosik","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-sculpture","tag-wood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-Qj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9187,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/12\/artist-caroline-slotte\/","url_meta":{"origin":3243,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Caroline Slotte","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"February 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Caroline Slotte carefully carved each of these mundane objects out of wood for the series One to One. 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