Antigua, 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.
Antigua in stacked Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the island of 365 beaches carved one depth contour per layer, with the harbor that made it the sailing heart of the Caribbean.
Antigua's arithmetic is its slogan, a beach for every day of the year, but the island's soul lives at English Harbour, where Nelson's Dockyard still works as the only continuously operating Georgian dockyard in the world, its stone warehouses now fitting out superyachts instead of frigates. Antigua Sailing Week fills the south coast each spring with one of racing's great gatherings. On the chart, the island's crenellated coastline explains the beach count: bays and coves notching the birch in every direction, with the reef-strewn north shoals engraved in careful detail.
Each contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand and engraved, behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
Race week veterans and beach-a-day completists finally share a wall piece.
The engraving spans English and Falmouth harbours, St. John's, Half Moon Bay, and the reef line north toward Barbuda's direction.
- 24.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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