Nadav Ben Shlomo

08/19/2024

07/24/2024

This wood was too fun to carve😍🫠

07/16/2024

Small moments of carving something new💆🏽‍♂️

05/26/2024

I carved this spoon more than two years ago, and it's still one of my favorites. Looking back on older carvings shows me how much I've improved, yet I can go back and find inspiration in my own carvings

05/25/2024

Carving many bowls these days, this one has quite an intense feeling to it. Perhaps it's due to the strong colors of the plum wood, or maybe it stemmed from the way I carved it. I finished carving it in one day, an uncommon practice for me. Typically, I start a carving and only finish it within weeks, and sometimes months. However, on that day I felt a vortex of heavy feelings inside me, I had no choice but to carve.

05/24/2024

Wow, 50k followers! Thank you! I've been blown away by the amount of positive feedback in the last few months. These times haven't been easy with everything happening in my home country and in the world, but everyone who supported me through these days really helped and provided much-needed positivity.

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05/23/2024

Being scared of spilling ink on my table, I improvised something to hold the bottle. This reminded me that when I make myself tools to create with, I enjoy the creation much more. Having a nice journal and something nice to write with surely makes me want to sit and write more often. ?? Didn't expect this nice surprise.

05/22/2024

A set of small, quick trays. Usually, I don't make sets; I carve each piece uniquely. It makes sense for me, as each piece of wood has a life of its own, and forcing a shape on something unique feels unnatural. But recently, I get this small desire in me to try and see how I can make sets that are not necessarily identical but have the same general shape and function. Anyway, this is only something that cooks in my head, and these trays are only a small test. We will see how this turns out in the end 🤔

05/21/2024

Another carve-less post, featuring some of the last days of our time in Greece during the summer. Back then, I was already excited about returning to my little workshop and starting to work on some new ideas I had. Now, after these last intense three months of the ongoing war and all the pain and feelings around it, I often wish to teleport myself to the calm quiet atmosphere of the sea, the mountains, and the kindness of the people around.

05/20/2024

I don't know why it took me so much time to capture and share with you this bowl. It's been finished for a month and a half now. I started it in the summer, and it reminded me of how much I enjoy making little bowls. However, there's an incomplete feeling with it—maybe due to its thickness or a lack of elegance I see in its outer shell. In the last three months, it's been much harder for me to deal with imperfections. I find myself needing things to give me satisfaction; otherwise, I neglect them. But that needs to change. I must move on and learn again how to deal with the hard feelings that arise when facing imperfections. Perhaps it reminds me of how imperfect this world is and the pain that is still being inflicted every day. However, not having much power over the world reminds me of how much power I have to work on myself. So, I will continue forward, accepting the imperfect with love and the motivation to get better at creating through passion, love, and empathy.

05/19/2024

Here are some pictures from my new website, featuring a small collection of spoons that I've put in the shop. As I am not much of a businessman, I decided to slowly upload some of my works to my new shop. Bringing something new to my life, like this website, takes a lot of mental effort. In fact, I started working on this website around four months ago, and there was something inside me not wanting to finish, being scared of dealing with more zones that I'm not comfortable with. But now it's out, and slowly I will understand what needs to be improved and where this website of mine can be developed. Until then, go have a look, and if you have any comments or suggestions, I would truly love to hear!

05/17/2024

Bowls and trays, the few I've put on my website. I have some smaller ones in the process, hoping to soon fill my website with much more.

05/16/2024

This time, something a bit different. I actually enjoy carving masks quite a lot, even though I haven't done it much in the last few years. When I was in high school, I had much more passion and desire to carve sculptures, faces, and masks. It was always a great way for me to express a bit of my crazy side that many of you can't see here on Instagram. This specific mask I started while traveling to Greece, and I only finished it here in Prague. I'm not sure what feeling it conveys, but I think it might make sense, as I myself lately find it extremely hard to understand and listen to my own feelings.
Anyway, I will probably make more of these in the future. Maybe they will help me understand some things that are going deep inside.

05/15/2024

A tray in progress, sometimes I find the resting tools very peaceful and calm. Having their afternoon rest, not being ready to go back to their sheath. They lay there, waiting for me to get back to work and create. More than once, they helped me get out of a bad day, reminding me of their beautiful nature, making it possible for me to express and release.