We are so excited to introduce you to today’s guest, woodworker Uli Kirchler. We first came across Uli’s work on the website ThisIsColossal in late 2019. A Portland, Oregon-based artist of Italian heritage, Kirchler is the maker of one of our favorite things, ever.

Using unique pieces of wood with varying textural surfaces and colors, he carves multi-story towers – hidden castles, landscape castles, pop-up cities – that telescope in and out of the wood with a flick of the wrist. Uli, quite literally, sees castles inside pieces of wood and then spends countless hours bringing them out of that wood. He is an artist of a most ticklish sort.

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