Todd Kight is standing with Lydia Husky behind the TKcompany of Atlanta’s hand crafted rustic home decor vendor’s table. The wood art is being shown at a recent makers’ market in Atlanta.
The wavy wood art by Todd Kight is shown with its famous “Come and Take It” wording. For explanation, see story.
Wood Art
Todd Kight has an unusual wood craft. He puts wrinkles in wood. That is, he makes wooden flags with waves in their surface. They seem to be flying.
His flag art is highly polished and decorative. Their subject matter is usually the American flag with patriotic stars and messages or symbols of a military or historic nature.
He says he’s worked with wood since a child. It is something of a passion, so let it be realized the wooden plaques have real waves on their surface.
They are heavy waves which Kight said he achieves by gluing together 13 slates of wood and then sandpapering the surface into rows with the appearance of waves.
“It’s just a sanding party after I get those 13 layers of wood glued together,” Kight said.
Kight is an Atlanta resident who grew up in Irving, Texas.
He enjoys showing his work especially at marketing and craft fairs. He gets the chance to talk about his work and will even take special orders, maybe a college logo or piece of hand art made with wood.
A last note on his patriotic support of country and those who serve is that on several of his most patriotic designs will be the wording “Come and Take It” written beneath a drawing of a lone star and barrel of a cannon.
The wording and line art should be familiar to most Texans. It has a world history impact. Here is the story. The Come and Take It symbol is actually a flag itself prevailing through 183 years of Texas history.
It stood for defiance of Mexico in the battle for Texas independence and comes from the Battle of Gonzales in 1835. There, the Mexican army ordered the Texans to give back the cannon Mexico had provided before the war started. The answer from the Texans?
“Come and take it.” Its deeper historical significance is that the slogan was first used in 480 BC by the Spartan King Leonidas as a defiant answer and last stand against an order of surrender demanded by the Persian King Xerxes. It was later used in 1788 at Fort Morris during the American Revolution.
Kight calls his personal work “hand crafted rustic home decor.” His company’s name is “TKcompany.” His phone is 430-274-7475.
If you see something you like, he’d be happy for you to come and take it.