Illustrative wood-burning inspired by forest myth, night skies, and quiet stories.
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Process Videos, slow burning and studio life.
The Artist
Smoky Wood Studios is the home of my original, hand-burned wood art, work shaped by fire, time, and a lifelong relationship with making things by hand.
I’m Petra Monaco. I’ve always been a creator. Wood just happened to be the material that finally listened.
From the Studio
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Presence Over Symbolism: Why These Animals Aren’t Characters
It would be easy to assign meanings to the animals in this collection. Deer as gentleness.Wolf as leadership.Raven as mystery. But that’s not what this work is asking for. The animals in Held Between Light aren’t symbols or stand-ins for ideas. They’re presences, held in a moment of awareness. I’m less interested in what they