Lexington artist David Napier's life was forever changed by an unusual request.

His wife asked him to make her a spoon.

The musician soon found himself swapping guitar strings for woodworking tools and his honed his craft, making elaborate and functional wooden spoons.

Tonight's Tapestry, our weekly Arts and Culture segment, takes you into the Happy Spooning Workshop.

My wife walked into my office one day and I was a I was a full time music teacher during the pandemic.

That's a noun, of course.

So I am sitting here until a couple of students online, but I was pretty bored.

She walked into the office and make me a spoon and I'm like, All right, cool.

Made this tiny little spoon.

And then she posted that online.

My whole living is this now you know where it was?

I was in a band for ten years and, you know, I went from starving artist to artist.

I'm about 80% self-taught and then 20% comes from influence from all over the place.

So really, the big thing is just each piece of work kind of tells me the story.

You know, the grain has direction and back.

Look, you know, when you look in the cloud, I can see a cloud that looks like a blob or something like that.

I see the same kinds of things in wood and then the grain and then the movement of that wood.

And so I try to keep it structurally sound while also letting the grain dictate how you see the movement of the spoon.

The functionality comes from I've actually worked with a lot of people that have had like hand disabilities and things like that.

So I'm always trying to be cognizant of how it feels if you're cooking with it.

But at the same time, I get it from a lot of people that they actually just put their spoons on their wall.

And so I actually now try and focus on both of them.

So the art intent is the art is just as much intentional as it is the functionality.

I wanted to look pretty in and last a long time, so I've got some spoons that are foot long.

I've got stabs that are almost six foot tall, some Cajun.

So some of those will take 20 hours plus I've got some that are guitar spoons, some that are feather spoons, some that are just amorphous shapes, just whatever comes off the top of my head that I can see with the piece of wood I try to create it.

I grew up sitting in a house with a mother that was a seamstress, a singer songwriter.

She did a little bit of everything.

So if you think that I've done a lot of stuff, you should see my mom.

This is my creative sauce right here.

Anything that I wanted to do, my mother was there to just back me up and see it.

She never stopped me from wanting to be my creative self fully.

But for me, art is just trading one outlet for another.

I'm saying the same things in my in my woodworking that I would with music.

I'm trying to have that same kind of conversation, acceptance and diversity and inclusiveness and just about every way.

It's all about just just putting my feelings down somewhere.

Whether or not you're drawing or writing a song or, you know, carving some wood, like I go into, I try to go into a different place.

Any time I'm doing any kind of work, any good.

God, love is energy.

Neighbor takes happy spooning to various craft shows in the region, and you can also find his spoons for sale online.