This bowl serves up what Stocksdale called “the wealth of the grain.” The bowl’s simple foot, or base, provides a steady foundation for swooping patterns in the wood grain, which flow between the interior and exterior. Stocksdale devoted his career to turning bowls on a lathe, exploring “the shape of the inside” as much as the silhouette. He learned woodturning as a child and began making bowls in a Michigan forestry camp during World War II.