Kai knew when he began playing with this idea months ago that he wanted to call these palimpsests. 

palimpsests: "... something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface..."

He began with a slab of reclaimed hickory, we began the first few layers of our usual bird & brush process, but instead of a secret wish, he added an entire story about home. And then added a few more layers. I

The slice of Shagbark Hickory is from a tree in North Carolina that was milled into floor boards for a razed barn. The shelf is corral board - old fenceposts reclaimed from a Montana farm, naturally weathered by the elements. And crow dream shown here is on a piece of redwood that used to be part of a pickle brine barrel reclaimed from Oregon.

This storykeeper comes with the crow dream artblock, another palimpsest - with a story Kai wrote based on a dream he had...