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Published: 2007-09-14 05:16:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1861; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 30
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Radiolaria are microscopic unicellular critters. I saw this one in a drop of seawater. Their exoskeletons are often great source material for living Sacred Geometry structures. Often one can readily identify one or more of the Platonic Solids in their body structures.This sculpture is made of stainless metric bolts welded in spiral patterns to the outside of a stainless,( PAINTED) gazing ball.
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This is amazing! What a great way to turn found objects into something beautiful!
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this is awesome, reminds me of this spherical algae i saw in junior high
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Yep,
that's where allot of us first see it ,or in the awesome biological illustrations from the last century by Ernst Haeckel.
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Great piece! Glad to see you on Artmetal.com as well.
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Yeah,
I just finally figured out how to download on that site.
The navigation there is not exactly intuitive...LOL
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nice take on a gazing ball. great design and execution.
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Thank you,
Fully 90% of my pieces are made from recycled metal.
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very environmental of you 
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He he,
That would be me...
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I try to work with recycled materials. While I was in school I did a bit of work with discarded railroad spikes. and occasionally would come in with a chuck of random steel or iron I found walking around memphis. it was a lot harder to find used, but not in use, non ferrous metals down there. the only metal you could generally get unprocessed at the scrapyard that wasn't steel was aluminum. and aluminum was almost entirely unused at our school. (except for the occasional late night casting in the sculpture department)
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I try to stay away from aluminum,and never weld it.
It's toxicity scares me...
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yeah, i wrote a report about aluminum in high school, about how drinking from aluminum cans can cause a slow buildup of aluminum in the system that gathers in your brain and can lead to dementia and hair loss. but its a useful material for somethings.
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Oh wow what an intriguing piece.I can't stop staring at it.
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again, this is just too cool. You so so many great things with ordinary objects taking them to the intagable level of...well greatness. Keep up the good work.
And between you and me, you might want to invest in a better camera.
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This was scanned from an old print.
I've gone digital now,but I should go back and do some spotting to this image.
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I love your interpretation of a radiolaria.. I've done a few plankton-inspired pieces myself and this is vastly more impressive
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Thank you Melissa,
But I couldn't find your version in your photos...
I'm looking forward to my yearly visit to Maine,in the summer,when I really get to check out the cool stuff with the microscope...
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ah.. didn't post them because they weren't all that good
Hmm, next time I go to the ocean I think I'll drag along my microscope...
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There's a whole world inside a drop of sea water,
and so many critters that display sacred geometry structures...
Sort of like Dr.Suess' book Horton Hears a Who.
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yeah.. diatoms are my favorite... I kind of want a tattoo of some sort of microscopic organism like that
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Diatoms are my favorites too...
As a tattoo it would be very trick...
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yeah.. that's part of the problem. Oh well
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ohh. this is cool. i like the colour. its transparent enough to mix with the colours its reflecting, like the sky, makes it look purplish...
interesting design. very fun.
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I got a shopping cart of those gazing balls from a nursery that went out of business. They're made in China of spun stainless (very thin),then painted with metallic paint...
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ooh... free stuff. coool...
did you paint it or was it like that?
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Did I say free ?
Not hardly...LOL.
Discount yes ,and it took some heavy negotiating,and 3 days to let my offer "sink in "...But free? NOT.
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oh, i just assumed since it was going out of business that it was free. 
hehe
well, it was worth it, i guess...
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this reminds me of the staircase in La Louvre, Paris... very nice and neat sculpture
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Quelle escalier dans le Louvre ?
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i think so... we went to the Msm. last '04 summer
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I just asked ,which stairway? because there are several.
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aww... the one that has of course like your art piece is, spiral one...
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Ah,
I'm so sorry. I got my radiolaria mixed up.
You mean the grand concourse...Yes I see what you mean now...
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maybe, they only have one spiral stairs there (i think, if i'm not mistaken)
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It's been a long time ,but if I remember correctly, isn't it the main staircase ?
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i think not, for i remember, the entrance where we have to pay is where you starts as well, where the "pig/wildboar" (can't remember now) is in front of the steps???
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Much has changed in 25 years...LOL.
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wow, that long ago, yes, definitely it changed and expanded now...
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I'm due for another journey.
And I think it will be next Spring.
There's something brewing in my future,a great honor and opportunity...
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congratulations then and goodluck!!!
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pleasure, nice chatting with you
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