Mark Ferdinand has created an unusual chronology of his tiki carving works. As an added touch he has filled in the blanks to the pesky questions of the origins of humanity.
Texas Tiki Carver
"Every Tiki has a Spirit" is an immature account of the works of a tiki carver, and a serious account of the origins of the earth and mankind. The author indulges in his quest for creating bad-ass oceanic art that one can sip a cocktail by. This he alternates with a concise mythological blueprint of how this all came to be, and what we were given to navigate our way through it. A book for tikiphiles, mythology buffs, and wood carvers.
Tiki Books - Black and white version
“True, you are of the sky and eternal, but I am of the earth. Man and woman are to be part of the earth, they should be created by that which is familiar and at home with the earth. You know only the way of the sky.”
Mark started carving tikis in order to have a large tiki to decorate his garden. Ten years later, he still has no permanent tiki in his garden as he has created and sold over a hundred of them without being able to keep one for himself.
"Tohumoko is the god of artists. Tohumoko overtakes certain men which present carvings of wood, stone and bone. Designs on the skin of man and woman come from those with the spirit of Tohumoko."
Tiki Books
Mark is the author of the adventure novel “Fortune on the Spectrum”, the herpetology stories of “You’re Gonna’ Get Bit!”, the autism stories of “The Autistic Prankster” and the hunting book "Wild Boar: A Case for the Most Beautiful Game Animal".
