It’s bin a while…

It’ really has been rather a long time since I’ve done any pure straightforward art… well, other than a bunch of masonary stuff I did a week or two ago; and must get back into actually because I came accross a very nice bin on the ol’ mangere bus route round the back of Ellerslie, all those old well kept mansiony villa’s, full of all sorts of expensive broken masonary. What stopped me was a huge chunk of scoria jutting from the top of it but once that had been carried to the car, easily 40kg’s of it, I realised the rest of the bin was full of treasures too, so I put the car on it’s rubber for the ride home… anyways, this’ll be the patio out the front of the house, Mum gets the good stuff!
Meanwhile I’ve sold two pieces in a gallery in Parnell, Aesthete run by Pierre and Genevieve, a chair and a stool, which were both surplus stock, the chair only a few years old but the stole went back to the early nineties, and I’ve been encouraged, by the smell of dollero’s, to do some more stuff. So I am and I’m quite surprised I can still do it and especially how it’s getting harder physically but much easier creatively. I did this yesterday after getting home at about 2am and basically went until it was too dark to see what I was doing.

As always it’s really hard to get a good impression of how I fill 3 dimensional space with a 2 dimensional photo but what can you do. Model it in softaware to rotate and zoom? That’d take as long as it does to just make the dam thing… if not longer!


Now if you know welding and metalwork you’ll see how much work I’ve got ahead of me. This is the easy bit, just bending , cutting and tacking up. Now I’ve got to go through and weld all the joins up and then work up the subsidary framework to strengthen it all up so if a fat bastard decides to sit in it… it’ll groan and squeak somewhat but it won’t take a dive to mother earth.
I’ve kinda figured it all out, where the solid sheet goes and where the sheet with holes in it goes and even where the cushion is and what shape it’ll be… as well as where the decorative bits will go. I’d say another two days of welding, cutting and grinding etc, then maybe two days cleaning it up and getting the protective coat on. I’ll post my progress as I go. About 5 hrs work so far.