These pictures have been a work in progress for a while now I must admit. Moving sculpture just doesn't translate well in a picture in relation to experiencing them in real life. With that being said, I am excited to show you what I have been up to. I'm grouping all of these pieces into a category which I call my experiments. Before these pieces came into being, I was working on more intricate sculptures such as a huge fish, small fish and delicate flowers. These works required me to sit in front of a milling machine hours on end, so that I could produce the intricately cut parts needed to bring these creatures to life. However I think I lost a bit of the fun in the process, and so I stopped producing art for a time. This period of rest gave me time to think about my art, and how I needed to keep going forward as I knew it made me happy. Well, as I have heard before, a wish is just a wish without a strategy. I knew I needed to make changes to the way I was doing things so that I could inject passion back into the making process, and take a break from sitting in front of a machine for hours.
So how did all of this culminate to the following sculptures? To bring joy back into the making process, I gave myself the rule that I needed to make each sculpture during a singe 4-hour period. Therefore, the parts had to come together quickly, they still needed to be interesting, and altogether still work (as in balance). To solve this, I turned to scrap metal that I found lying around the workshop and got busy making flowers which simply are bolted together. Oh yea- you may notice a rock or two as well (again, easy parts to pick up and add). These limitations allowed me to experiment with my art in a more care free way as the pieces didn't need to resemble a specific organism as they did in the past. And I realised I had successfully injected the fun back into the making process. I will definitely still make intricately cut sculptures in the future, but now I know that I need to take a break from time to time with experiments such as these.
