In Keeping with this ‘Every Monday A New Sculpture’ ..
The second.. along the same theme (Confusion, Consternation and Credulity)
“The Beast who mistook the Moon for it’s Lover”
Work in progress.. the beast who mistook the Moon for it’s Lover
I have decided to make one Small Sculpture every week..
at first it was going to be every day… maybe… ?
This is the first one anywhat..
Pleasant way to start the week.
the beast who thought the moon was a hunter
MOJO EXHIBITION .. Opening Night ..Friday 7th November 2014 from 5pm till 8pm
Get your MOJO on ! Check out all the new works from the 12 members of the Collective..
Boogie to the beats of the Moondogs Gypsey Blues Band and help us celebrate our MOJO !!
I will be showing what’
MOJO .. 4 Brass and Copper Bracelets
s got my Mojo Moving over the last 6 months or so.. today I made these four Brass and Copper bracelets !
Sterling Silver (925) buckles
Stainless steel Buckles
Some Fine-Silver(99.9) Buckles.. and a black stainless and Bronze one
Kilt Pins to go
‘armless
Really .. You just have to see it for yourself …
But here is Trevor the parrot on the ferry … And an arty-farty picture taken by me in the stairwell..
- Trevor on the MR1 to MONA
- In the MONA stairwell
- Bar stools by Ben Beames of Hammer and Hand Hobart in the Bar at MONA
- Bar stools by Ben Beames of Hammer and Hand Hobart in the Bar at MONA
- Detail of Bar stools by Ben Beames of Hammer and Hand Hobart in the Bar at MONA
Tumbling heart (pleased to meet you).. This little guy’s heart is doing flips while his hat levitates.. Love does that to him…Finished it today ! Pleased as can be… thought I felt my hat glide about for a while !
Ive nearly completed the Kinetic Sculpture “Taken for a ride” (all that glitters is not gold).. It now has a nice red handle on the crank and am just short of some final decisions on finish and making a sound-track to go with the video clip(that wont contravene anyone’s copyright)…
But today I have been working on a new one .. something simple because I got into a lot of ‘Kognecience Kaniption’ type trouble with “Taken for a Ride” .. anyhow, here is a picture of work in progress on the new one .. Working title, “Tumbling Heart”.“Tumbling Heart” work in progress … welded steel
These other two pictures are the “Trial and Error” bits…
So I’m working on a new Kinetic thing.. Needed another ‘Jig’ … completed the “Ganson Alignment Jig” ..the one that I sacrificed a perfectly good Stanley hand drill for…and Julian De Saxe..(who, like that Kung-fu Panda bloke.. is Awesomely Legendary), found a replacement one for me… Thanks Julian! I don’t know yet, just exactly what this one is saying but it is quietly doing my head in…. so it is doing something ..
Mo for a COGnicenti
Kinetic thing.. Work in progress
Jig for bending 1.6mm ribbon steel gear cogs
Arthur Ganson type alignment jig
‘Kinetic thing’ frame templates and inner workings
Kinetic thing inner workings..
Cogs !
Some mechanism with the wire ‘worm-gear’ on the right
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After making the kinetic sculpture “Bee Here Now” with a very erratic mechanism.. (the cogs lurch and jam !), I did some research and found the amazing Kinetic Sculptor, Arthur Ganson and after some initial disappointment at finding that he, seemingly, has used up all the ideas in the universe in the department of ‘comical whimsey, tempered with deep insight’ .. I girded up my artistic loins (!) and on the assumption that mine is a unique and creative intelligence , I studied his ‘you tube’ channel and have been making simulacrums of his Wire Gear making Jigs for the last few days .. Thank you Arthur Ganson and your Unique Insightful and Lovely Intellegence ! and for showing the world your Jigs !
testing, testing 1 2 3
Look ! Gears !!!
bearing from a trashed angle grinder..
Bits n’ pieces..
sacrificial chuck
Should have them finished today .. hoping for some less Krunchy Kinetics !…
Watch this space !
We had a great night at the Bi-annual ‘Hammer and Hand’ Exhibition..June 20th, this one the winter one .. our favourite ! with Mulled wine, Fire drum blazing.. (Dark !) .. good eats.. and a Crackin’ show by “Moondog Gypsy Blues Band” .. and then there were the works ! These are some of mine….Get over to Hammer and Hand Byron to have a look at all of the Collective members’ works… “EXHIBIT A”
“Bee Here Now”
“Bee Here Now” detail… We rely on the Bees for our well being.. they have come to rely on our husbandry to survive ..Our hand on the management of the ecology is destroying the Bees … a seemingly small link in the chain, but crucial to our survival.
“Bee Here Now”
“Wind up toy”
“I am my son, my mother, my father,I am born of myself
my own flesh sucked..And someone squeezed my heart
to make me go through my number. I was a wind-up toy
someone had dropped wound up into a world already
running down The world had been going on a long time already but it made no difference It was new it was like new I saw it shining and it shone in the sun and it spun in the sun and the skein it spun was pure light . My life was made of it , made of the skeins of light…”From Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem ‘True Confessional’
Naked running Blue Wizard
