Pa682

I borrowed an element from my last completed piece (Am522) and reworked it into this design. When I fabricated the end parts for my last sculpture, I made an extra to experiment with later. Partly because I thought there were more ways to accentuate that shape and partly because I wanted to challenge myself to work around an existing part. Well It’s a little more complicated than that, but that is the short version.

Am522

This piece is another in what is quickly becoming a green category of works. I am still playing with the technique of anodizing multifaceted shapes and then machining off sections of the anodizing to reveal fresh aluminum to accentuate the geometry.  It has far fewer individual parts than some of my other works, but each part required many more operations to cut and are a good deal more complex than some of my other works.

NG623

This work is a small study I made in advance of another idea I am working on. I rarely do studies but once in a while I like to test a visual element.  I did make sure to try my best to make its own complete thought all by itself rather than just a smaller version of what I intended to make out of it so it still stands quite comfortably on its own.

NT793

This piece is an extension of the idea I started with Gl723. But rather than manipulating the values within a program I simply wrote a fixed program and then altered the mounting and rotational axis of the part itself to achieve different cut geometry using the same machine motion. It was a clever trick to get an elegant shape using only one program.

Gl 723

This piece represents a new way of thinking about shapes through the use of anodizing. I have started playing with forms that allow me to anodize and dye the metal a particular color, then cut the anodizing away to reveal bare aluminum and accentuate different parts of the geometry. This piece shares some of the programming frame work from the sculpture that came before it. Essentially I borrowed the program code from the copper parts on DN881. Then I manipulated some of the values within the frame work to achieve a different form without altering the framework of the program. This concept is an idea I have been playing with for a while that has yielded some great ideas for future works.

DN881...

This piece was a major undertaking. It Stands just a bit less than four feet tall and took a well over 200 hours of work to complete. It was designed to mark the end of the 10th year I have been working as a professional sculptor. It has over 360 individual parts and involved some of the most complicated hand programming and circular geometry I have done to date. It was an exhaustive effort to complete and I photo documented the whole process which can be viewed elsewhere on my web page under the process tab.