I've been thinking that there is great potential for the distribution of different wood colours used in the kayak's deck to generate a "dialogue" with the landscapes along which the kayak will be paddled. That idea, afterall, is at the core of this project.
Rather than have two rigidly formal and contrasting fields of colour on the deck (as my sketch a little lower down this blog indicates) it will be more meaningful to use a relaxed arrangement of the cedar and pine strips to generate a visual effect not unlike the beautiful painting below ...
Saplings Forest. Fred Williams (1962)
The closest precedent that I have found to demonstrate this visual effect in a kayak is captured in the images below of a Guillemot Expedition Single.
It's a very nice approach and, it would seem, clearly inspired by the repititious verticality of the forests from which the timber has been sourced.
