This tenor is a commission/collaboration local artist who grew up here in Florida on the space coast, watching rocket launches, playing with dolphins in the waterway, and being outside with all of the wildlife. The stars are her constellation Tarus, the endgraft and heel plate are mangrove from an old log she saved. Sides and back are casuarina, hard as ebony and an invasive species here in Florida. This was cut from some trees taken down to restore a local natural area. Top is cypress, neck and binding are Cuban (West Indian) mahogany from a big tree a neighbor took down. Ebony headplate, fingerboard, and bridge. I gave her the body in white, she did the painting, and then I finished over it. The inlays down the fingerboard go ‘deeper’ from the air into the water.
