Miami Beach, Florida 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Nautical 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.
Miami Beach in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 43 inches: the barrier island, the bay behind it, and the cut that feeds the port, carved one depth contour per layer in a format as long as the beach itself.
Miami Beach is a made thing, a mangrove sandbar dredged and filled a century ago into the most famous strip of sand in America, and the water still runs the show. Government Cut slices the island's southern tip to let the cruise ships through, the Venetian and star-shaped islands scatter across Biscayne Bay on their engineered footprints, and the Atlantic shelf slides away gently off the deco district's beaches. On the chart, natural and engineered water sit side by side in the birch: soft bay shallows, hard dredged edges.
Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and set behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
South of Fifth or north of Lincoln, bayside or beachside, the whole argument is mapped.
The engraving spans South Beach and Government Cut, the bay islands, Indian Creek, and the beach running north toward Surfside. Neighbors: Key Biscayne and Fort Lauderdale.
- 13.5 × 43 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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