Mario, Wood

Today, I watched this Mario and his incredible details get created out of a tree stump.

With a chainsaw.

The artist, a woodworker in Michigan decked out in facial protection, resembled Dead Space’s Isaac Clarke more so than a lumberjack.  This truly bad-ass statue was carved from start to finish with the spinning blades, and then painted by hand to completion.

(Taken at Altermatt Farms in Macomb, MI)