Mexico 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.
Mexico in stacked Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the whole country's waters carved one depth contour per layer, two oceans, two great gulfs, and the reefs and lagoons between.
Few countries face this much varied water. The Pacific runs the long western coast past Baja's peninsula and the Sea of Cortez, the young sea Cousteau called the world's aquarium. The Gulf of Mexico curves around to the Yucatan, where the Mesoamerican Reef, second longest on Earth, begins its run down the Riviera Maya past Cozumel's walls, and where the peninsula's cenotes connect the sea to a limestone underworld. On the chart, the deep Pacific trench, the gulf's broad basin, and the Caribbean's reef line all keep their true shapes in the birch, one country's remarkable water portfolio at a glance.
Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and set behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
Cortez divers, Caribbean snorkelers, and Pacific surfers: one flag, one chart.
The engraving spans Baja and the Cortez, the Pacific coast to Oaxaca, Veracruz's gulf shore, and the Yucatan with Cozumel. Close-ups: Baja California and Cabo.
- 24.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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- 14-day returns
Live from the water