Art Blog » March 2007

Spider Day Four

Last night I added only a gross (144) squares. That’s because I ran out! I have to buy more steel and make more squares. Also, I did a lot of detail work, becuase after I finished the abdomen I had to patch up some empty spaces on the back and near the spinarrets, and then I had to start the transition to the cephalothorax (front part), which was tedious. I put a lot of extra welds in this area because this small transition ara will have to hold the entire weight of the abdomen.

Here are the pictures.

Skeleton Back

I used two layers of paper, one white and one grey, to convey distance and space between the bones closer to you and the bones further away. I cut out of two pieces of paper then put them together just so, to create the ribs, arms and spine.

Here’s a link to the whole thing.

Spider Day Three

Last night I added another 212 squares to the spider abdomen. This makes for a total of 551 squares. The abdomen is almost complete. Now I will begin creating the cephalothorax…

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Eat Food II

This is my second papercut inspired by the first line of Michael Pollan’s article “Unhappy Meals.” I started with the words and worked outwards, and it ended up being very tree/forest imagry with the food text. But since all of these things are tied together, it still works. It just may make you think a little.

Here’s the new papercut.

Spider Day Two

Last night I added another 170 squares to the spider abdomen. This makes for a total of 339 squares.

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Cranes

Two cranes chillin’ in a fantastical design.
 
 
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Spider begins

I started a new metal sculpture that I’m building entirely out of squares (well, most are actually just rectangles and a few are triangles). You can’t tell right now, but it’s going to be a spider. The part I’ve built first is the top part of the back part … I have to learn some spider anatomy.

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