Yakisugi collection · SIRIS construction · Circa 2024
- Eye size
- 50 mm
- Bridge
- 18 mm
Hero takes a square, Wayfarer-inspired shape and gives it an asymmetric surface: approximately three quarters of the front is charred, leaving an angled area of exposed walnut at one upper corner. Black ink marks that corner and the left temple; the right temple remains natural walnut.
East Texas walnut · Fire and ink
Walnut gives Hero a warm brown ground and horizontal grain that remains visible through the char. The maker identifies the timber as East Texas walnut; the region lies within black walnut’s native range. The surface treatment draws on yakisugi—also known as Shou Sugi Ban—the Japanese tradition of charring sugi boards, reinterpreted here in walnut. The ink splatter recalls hatsuboku, the splashed-ink approach seen in Sesshū’s 1495 landscape at Tokyo National Museum.
Cross-grained French-cut walnut with a four-layer carbon-fiber core, four walnut back layers, spring hinges and adjustable acetate temple tips.