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Fall 2011Sculpture piece
1' x 2' x 4' approx
Materials:
Steel
Found Stone
An exercise in welding.
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Comments: 16
It almost looks like a religious icon. Though I suppose it's kind of Rorschach in that regard.
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Thank you very much!
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Did you find welding to be difficult, other than the initial trial and error of learning?
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It's more tedious to me. It's arranging pieces of metal so they stay still while you tack them together with a force that often times sticks so when you move it the pieces fall away, or stand and be terrified that, if you accidentally shift a piece of metal under the blade, the band saw will snap and slice your torso open. I dunno. Not my favorite. I like tactile.
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I think I'd be relatively bad at it. I also wish soldering things were an easier feat as well, because you can't just slap two pieces of incompatible metals together. Jewelry making is difficult.
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It's... it's easy though. Welding, your usually using all the same type of metal because it has to hold itself up and together, and it's very fast. Soldering as I understand it is more time consuming because you're working on tiny little things, and you have to be very precise. Not so on a larger scale.
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I would be afraid of harming myself in some way.
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I know I always feel that way hahaha.
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You did some welding? <33333
I am loving my welding class. I should do something more interesting this semester.
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I didn't just dooo welding, I was forced to XD
I liked it. It isn't my favorite thing, and I'm terrified of the torch, and the plasma cutter is something I will never ever go near unless threatened with some other form of death.
This piece was begrudgingly born. I didn't want it to be so lol. But I am a little happy with it now, several months later.
I wanna see stuff that you do!
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I cherish and adore the plasma cutter.
I built...all kinds of small pieces, mostly. Infuriated my teacher who said "You're not here to make jewelry!" but I made a small barn, could fit on a nightstand. With a razor tree and a twisted star. My grandparents have it now.
I also made...a gorgeous relief of a bear...and a tiny falcon...hmm. A hideous abstract tree. A wire tree with dangling mobile monkey. And a solid cast aluminum lizard.
Ooh. And a tiny metal rocking horse.
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Aww, those are all lovely things to make. We weren't allowed to make anything that resembled anything really. Everything I ever made in metal was for an assignment that had to be abstract. Which BLOWS.
You should have made a giiiiant diamond ring after the jewelry comment. Heh.
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Omg. Someone did make a metal pillow and a giant ring, that was freaky.
Omg, all abstract? Tsch. Needs moar freedom.
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Haha, probably heard your teach say no jewelry, too.
Yeah, it was all about "learning how to work with the material." Even though we were in sculpture 3 at that point, and had used that same reasoning all throughout sculpture 1 and 2.
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xD Omg. You can learn while you make something realistic. Or representational.
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