Ascending Hearts — A Wildgoose Mountain Totem

This is Mel Johnson at his most ambitious — a soaring, gravity-defying totem of hand-carved hearts and organic forms that erupts upward from a weathered, darkened root base like love refusing to stay grounded. Seven distinct carved elements — hearts, ovals, rods — each shaped from a different wood species, hover and balance in a cascading column that seems to defy physics as much as convention. No two pieces share the same grain, the same color, or the same story, and yet together they form something unmistakably unified. This is not a decoration. This is a statement. At 20" x 15" x 25", Floating Hearts commands a room. The raw, almost volcanic base — dark, cracked, deeply textured — anchors a vivid red resin heart at its foot before launching the eye upward through a warm mahogany centerpiece heart and into a constellation of suspended wooden forms above. The contrast between the rough, untouched base and the hand-polished, satin-smooth carved elements above is pure Wildgoose Mountain Woodcrafts: honoring where the wood came from while revealing what it could become. For collectors seeking a one-of-a-kind sculptural work with deep craft pedigree and undeniable presence, this piece is rare in every sense. It is fully hand-sculpted, structurally bold, emotionally resonant, and impossible to replicate. Represented at PTG & AV Gallery in Las Vegas, Mel Johnson's work is gaining serious collector attention — and a piece this extraordinary will not remain available long.