Jamaica, Caribbean 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.
Jamaica in stacked Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: the island carved one depth contour per layer, from the Blue Mountains' plunge to the sea to the glowing water at Falmouth.
Jamaica packs unusual drama into its edges. The Blue Mountains rise over 7,000 feet within sight of the coast, then the island shelves into some of the Caribbean's storied waters: Negril's Seven Mile Beach and its cliff-jumping west end, the Blue Lagoon at Port Antonio dropping an improbable 180 feet just off the beach, and the Luminous Lagoon near Falmouth, where the water itself lights up around every night swimmer and paddle stroke. Montego Bay and Ocho Rios carry the resort coast between. On the chart, the deep engraved pockets close to shore tell the island's steep underwater truth.
Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and finished behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
One island, water that glows, and mountains in the sea: the whole legend in birch.
The engraving spans Negril, Montego Bay, Falmouth, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio, and Kingston's harbour.
- 13.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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