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Every once in a while, I get myself into making something and it just seem sthat everything that can go wrong, will and is going wrong. But when I press on through it, the product at the other end is a wonderful mixture of good intentions and adjusting to the circumstances at hand. This piece in particular exemplifies the term, happy accidents.

 

Chris Bathgate in Group show at New Art Center

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My latest creation everyone. This one took some time, but it was well worth it. 

It stands about 19 inches tall and is about 8 in diameter.

Coming Soon!

Finished this drawing for my current project. The Machining is still under way, but this is a little teaser for everyone to look at. More in a week or so.

New small works

These two are the second and third

installments before I move on to a bigger project. This first one is more a

technical achievement than anything.

The machining of the center piece on this one involved writing a program

that wrapped a helix around the sphere. rather than run the cut straight

through It took quite a while to figure out the tool path geometry because

it involved changing the helix as the cutter progressed deeper into the work

piece. Not an easy thing for me to solve. Also making the actual cuts in

Stainless steel called for some extra care as well.

CL863624433722235525, a new work and Some good news

So I have been out of the shop for a number of weeks. My show in New York, combined with a number of other obligations and unexpected distractions has slowed me down and cost me a few weeks in the shop. But I finally managed to steel away some time and make this little fellow to get things moving again.

SOFA NY 2011

Here is an image from my booth at SOFA New York (ignore the chairs). It was a great show and I met a bunch of interesting people, but boy am I tired and glad to be back home. Its good to make an effort to get your work out there and most of the time, I have to force my self to. Otherwise my natural instinct would be to work in the shop all the time and never go out. So this accomplished that task nicely. But now the show is over and its time to start some new projects. So look for new work in a few short weeks.

Chris Bathgate Solo Show with Packer Schopf Gallery @ SOFA NY

(Booth#311) @SOFA NYC, Park Ave Armory, Park Ave @67th St., NYC,  Event Dates, April 13 - 17



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Show Dates

SOFA VIP Reception:  Wednesday, 5 – 9 PM, April 13, 5PM – 9PM(tickets must be purchased)

SOFA General Show Hours            
Thursday, April 14, 11AM – 7PM, Friday, April 15, 11AM – 6PM
Saturday, April 16, 11AM – 7PM, Sunday, April 17, Noon – 6PM

Completed Drawing SC 415522332

An Experiment in Scaling

Here are the images for what I am going to consider a trip-tic. I already posted about the last edition, but I was kind of taken with the proportions of that design and I wanted to explore them further with a more ambitious work. My first instinct was to make a larger version and expand on the concept and see where it lead me, But while I was at it, I figured I could go the opposite direction as well. So in short, I made a small set of 1/2 scale works along with a Larger "one of a kind" that is 2.3 times as large as the original. Both with design changes that I found appropriate for the different scales.

The Small Version

The 1/2 scale version is quite similar to the original with some simplification of the design to account for scale. But this one was a much more of a process oriented experiment. I took this redesign as an opportunity to play with some process elements that I rarely ever have the opportunity to think about.

When making one of a kind works and short run objects, you rarely get to play with optimizing your processes to make them more efficient and more elegant. Designing a program and its associated set ups and operations to cut a shape can be done many ways, But when you get a second chance to simplify an object, you get to indulge in taking the time to streamline the programs and improve on the different operations based on what you learned doing it the first time. So yeah it was kind of a chance to nerd out on my craft a bit, but I got a lot out of it and now I have a bunch of these little guys to offer. I was able to shorten the production time significantly.

The Large Version