The Large Coffer & its Engravings

This is the last big project for “The American Peasant.” What’s left to build? Some shelves, a plate rack and a whole bunch of icons. About half the words for the book are written and now await a much-beloved rewrite.

My plan for the book – and I think it’s doable – is to be done with building the projects and the writing by Dec. 31.

This week I engraved the front of the coffer, and I’m pretty happy with it. I might add some more spells on the top panel so its density better matches the lower panel.

What do the spells mean? After much though, I decided to make the engravings the story of my childhood up until today.