MARTENSVILLE, Sask.—Cam Merkle doesn’t quite know what compels him to carve. But he does know where it began—in the summer of 1982, when he walked into the Wascana Centre in Regina, Sask., and saw three carvings of birds.
“As soon as I saw those carvings, some kind of a switch just flipped in me,” Merkle told The Epoch Times.
“One minute, I didn’t know this stuff existed. The next minute, this is what I was meant to do.”
At the time, he worked in the photography industry and photographed birds as a hobby. He’d also been wood-carving since childhood—race cars, dragsters, and fishing lures. More recently, he’d done scale models of cameras and stylized birds….