After the POUR, my pieces have to be cut off from their sprues and vents using an ANGLE GRINDER.
This delightful power tool is a pretty sweet device.
This thing can cut, grind, and sand just about any material - including metal.
Those four pieces at the bottom of the image have been cut off.
A little grinding down of the leftover stumps and they're ready to be welded together.
The welding process.
Putting the pieces together.
( side note. welding metel is beyond,
I mean BEEE YOND,
kick ass.
I highly recommend it.)
After all of that is a whole lot of grinding, sanding, patina and polishing.
If you're not already bored, pictures and descriptions of that process would do it.
Trust me.
It's tedious, monotonous, and downright mind numbingly boring.
I'll save you the torment.
I'll save you the torment.
For the final critique, I knew my work needed a natural environment for the presentation
and the sculpture studio just wouldn't suffice. Way too industrial.
Where the studio is located has these great vines growing up the outside of the building and
I figured the best venue would be there.
Of course, a field trip to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens would be ideal,
but that would be a little outlandish I think.
I'll save that reveal for my thesis show!
Each pod is about a foot long.
I have a piece from the iron and stainless pour also
but I'll wait to tell you about those.
Gotta keep you coming back for more, don't I?
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