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Published: 2006-05-09 21:41:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 307; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 10
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A piece I did as my last large scale welded work. I wish I were able to get better shots of this on a solid background or a gallery type setting but each half weighs in around 300 pounds each. I wish I had the means to keep working on this scale and in this medium when I had something in mind. It's supposed to represent birth or death. Yin and yang. The metal egg shell broken.Related content
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I love this piece. It's to bad you can work with an arc anymore, but hey maybe one day you can hire people to make your visions materialize. Richard Serra did it, so did Andy along with countless others. Beautiful work, beautiful vision. Bravo.
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Thank you very much. I feel so at home working large scale. Your comment couldn't have come at a better time.
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Why aren't you going to be able to work in this medium and scale anymore?
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well I can't work on that scale right now....due to space. But I can't use arc welders anymore since I have an implanted defib/pacer.
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Wow. I was expecting something of a more mundane answer, like "I lost access to the welder." I'm now somewhat in the same circumstance spacewise. I'd never have thought about the arc interfering with something like that though. I've had to get away from arc welding because of my living arrangements. They don't much care for them in apartment complexes. I've been messing around with different materials and have started to make larger peices again though. Working with things like foams and resins has opened up a lot of new doors for me.
I'm not sure if gas welding is an option, considering that size is. Gas is also too expensive in my opinion too. Man, I miss having access to space and tools.
On another note, I really like your "born under a bad sign" installation. It was the background that drew me to look at it, but I found the horns protruding from the soil very interesting.
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How goes the resin and foam? I haven't ventured there yet. It's funny you mention that installation. I just found the pics someone shot of me painting that background. My brush never hit the surface and they caught it all in action. I am going to scan them in and post them. That is the first and only installation I have ever done. I have no idea how it all happened it just sort of did. I didnt plan it out or think about it beforehand. I used it as my final work for my undergrad show. I liked the whole idea of the installation even though I had never even though about doing one before. I wish I had more detail shots though. I had a beheaded St. Francis statue at the foot of the grave. He was holding his head on a plate while standing in a pool of red paint with 7 syringes.
I appreciate the comments 8^)
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Very cool about the installation. The foam and resin is going pretty well. My new piece, the guy balancing on the chair, is pretty much composed of it. Hopefully I'll be able to experiment with new techniques at my new job. I just started at this place. [link] I think that is the right web address anyways. Everything there is foam sprayed over an armature, carved, then sprayed with a hard plastic coating. I'm only carving Veggie Tales characters now, but that's almost over.
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Man how did you hook yourself up with an art related job? I keep chugging away at painting and submitting work. If I had a good sized studio it would make it so much easier....I would have my own little gallery 8^)
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Honestly, how I got the job is a little funny. The guy who was the Head Artistic Director for the company is a 3rd generation family friend. Our grandparents were traveling salesmen together, and our dads went to high school together. Anyways, he saw my parents at Home Depot and during a catching up conversation they got onto the topic of me graduating from school and needing a job. Thats pretty much how it happened. The funny thing is that we just got bombarded with work and they need more people. If you were in the TN area I'd tell you to come and check it out, but I don't think that $11 an hour is worth relocating for.
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