South Korea 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.
South Korea in stacked Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the peninsula and its three seas carved one depth contour per layer, thousands of islands included.
Korea faces three very different waters. The west coast meets the shallow Yellow Sea with some of the largest tidal swings on Earth, ranges around Incheon that expose vast flats and once let an amphibious landing change a war. The south coast shatters into an archipelago of some three thousand islands around Busan's great port. And off the southern tip rises Jeju, the volcanic island whose haenyeo free-diving women, honored by UNESCO, still harvest the sea floor on held breath as their grandmothers did. On the chart, the shallow engraved west, the island-strewn south, and the deep East Sea each keep their character 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.
Three seas, three thousand islands, one peninsula: carved complete.
The engraving spans Incheon and the west flats, the southern archipelago and Busan, Jeju, and the east coast's deep shore.
- 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