Cuba 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart
How the Water Becomes Wood
A chart is a stack of flat sheets until the water's real soundings tell it what shape to take.
- SurveyReal bathymetric sounding data sets every contour line before a single cut is made.
- CutEach depth band is laser-cut from its own sheet of Baltic birch, up to nine layers deep.
- StainWater layers are stained by hand, reading darker the deeper the water runs.
- StackThe sheets are registered and stacked in sequence, and the bed's true shape rises out of the wood.
- EtchDepths and place names are burned into the grain itself, never printed on it.
- FrameA solid Baltic birch frame and acrylic glass finish the piece, ready to hang.
Cuba in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: the largest island in the Caribbean carved one depth contour per layer, with the thousands of cays that ring it like a second coastline.
Cuba is an archipelago wearing one big island as its centerpiece: some four thousand cays and islets trail off its coasts, including the Jardines de la Reina, the Gardens of the Queen, a marine reserve so untouched that its reefs and shark populations read like the Caribbean of a century ago. Havana faces its harbor behind the Malecón's long seawall, where the waves break over the road on a north wind and the whole city comes out to watch. On the chart, the island's mountainous ends and the shallow cay-strewn banks between them keep their true shapes in the birch.
Each contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand and engraved, behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
The Malecón at sunset and the Gardens at depth: two Cubas, one carving.
The engraving spans Havana, the Viñales coast, the Jardines banks, Trinidad's shore, and Santiago's bay in the east.
- 13.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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- 14-day returns
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