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Gregory
K. Williams
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
 In
the early 1980’s. I was teaching myself to be a wood worker when I met
Garnet. A crotchety old guy in bib overalls, he had wood everywhere.
Lumber stacked, or slid into horizontal bins, or leaned against the walls
- every imaginable kind and size, it all had one thing in common - it didn't
get made into pallets. That's right, Garnet was the owner of a very successful
pallet manufacturing company and this was all wood that he had rescued
from the pallet factory.
A few years ago Garnet passed away. That's when his son, Georgie, made me an offer I couldn't refuse. He told me that all that old lumber had to be moved so that his pallet factory could expand. He told me if I would take all of that old wood and “do what you do” that he and I would do some trading. It was a daunting task and perhaps a lifetime project, but when I look at the things I make and think that they might have been pallets . . . I feel like I'm winning. Gregory K. Williams April 23, 1998 |