Major milestone yesterday....the TIG welder is up an running after sleeping for many a year. To celebrate, I welded a simple base so it could be mobile ( a requirement in the small upstairs portion of the studio).
I also produced sample number 2. It's an aluminum sheet with pop rivets... the mandrels are left on. It diverges from my original intent of producing "samples" that I've first investigated in my sketchbook, but it's a technique I've been pondering for some time. It actually derives from thousands of rivets used for a commission in St. Croix from 1998 or so. Even though it wasn't sketched first, I'm also working towards more intuitive responses as well. Not so sure about the irregular pattern, but I'm trying not to over-evaluate so soon after completing each sample.
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