Why one man has spent 30 years carving only abstract wooden spoons

ABC NEWS / Parkersburg, West Virginia / June 22, 2018.

For 71-year-old Norm Sartorius, a simple eating utensil represents everything human.

“It’s an instrument, a tool of nurturing that is universal, or very close to universal, in the human experience,” Sartorius told ABC News.

Sartorius is a studio woodworker who only carves sculptural wooden spoons. He says he is one of three "abstract spoon artists" in the U.S. and has nine products in Smithsonian museums in Washington, DC.

This is his story.

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