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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Jennifer Black, chainsaw carver, “We are discovering what’s in this log together”
Description: Jennifer Black looks at a log and sees how it could become a bird or a lighthouse or a bear.With a chainsaw in her hands, she has a running conversation in her mind, changing what she creates as she carves. “My mind switches on me so quickly,” she says.Black will be creating her sculptures in front of onlookers next week at the Altamont Fair. What she does is both an art and a sport, says Black in this week’s podcast. Black, who lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York, used to host...