Below you will see new steps in the process of creating the Rebar Sculpture: Transformation in Restoration. Working with this old metal is quite a challenge which is dictating how it is taking shape!
It is a process of building, then taking away, reshaping, bending, adding and reshaping again. Bends in the metal are achieved by heating the metal 'til red hot then slowly pulling with a metal tool...it is slow going!
The fish have been cut out of the flattened metal and will continue to be refined in shape and texture and turn of the body...all with the allowances of the metal.
It is a process of building, then taking away, reshaping, bending, adding and reshaping again. Bends in the metal are achieved by heating the metal 'til red hot then slowly pulling with a metal tool...it is slow going!
The fish have been cut out of the flattened metal and will continue to be refined in shape and texture and turn of the body...all with the allowances of the metal.
Fred bending the rebar.
This shows the sculpture where we tested placement of the fish. The second week we have started to remove and reshape some of the metal to form more spiral shape in the center,..a work in progress as seen below.
Heating the metal to red hot to bend a bit at a time.
Removing some metal to bring focus to sprial section. More may yet be removed...
And here are a couple images showing the fish...drawn on the metal ready to be cut out...and fish below in various stages of formation.
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