This is for a friend who is recovering from Liver Cancer Surgery. It is a very serious disease. Before she went in, she gave my some small logs from her pear tree. I tried this first bowl - just roughed out on the inside and sanded on the outside - and set it aside to see how the wood moved. Well it warped and cracked in major ways.
I was about to toss it when I decided to let it be a symbol of her journey. Her first surgery was successful and because of her health, her lack of drinking or smoking, her youth, and the fact that the cancer was only in her liver and caught early, she has a 50% odds of survival.
So the crack is the illness and the turquoise is a symbol of the beauty of a first successful healing step.