Hi Dewi....sorry for the lack of reply, which I assure you was born out of a lack of time to study the website, and not out of a lack of interest in it. Things are a bit hectic here at the moment, having been away for a month and just returned, but also having to strip out a section of the workshop to make room for a new ( and much bigger!) lathe. So, I haven't been using the forum much for the last month, but I decided to follow your link this morning and realised just what I'd been missing.
Binh Pho's work is truly inspirational and it's easy to see why, with work of this quality, it's museums that are featuring his work, every bit as much as galleries - maybe it's a reflection on how our American peers view the function of a museum! In its true sense, the word museum stems from the word 'muse', meaning to cause interest. If I recall correctly, the original muses were the inspirers of interest in various branches of the arts! It seems that no matter what UK museums do to try to struggle out of the old image of themselves as dusty old places where academics go to study matters-ancient, the good old British public stoically refuses to accept their modern approach to appealing to our interest, so we rely on galleries, where the emphasis is on sales, every bit as much as it is upon 'interest'. Thus the average bloke in the street rarely gets to see work of this quality because he could never afford to buy it, so why should he bother venturing into a swish, up-market gallery?
OK...rant over....I shall go now and rip out the rather splendid ( and exceptionally heavy) bench that I built my old lathe because the new one's got legs. When I'm done, I shall spend some time studying Binh Pho.
Cheers...Les