Hanging Sculpture

This hanging sculpture is a progression from my last triangular sculpture. I have being researching some contemporary sculptors. I found one in particular very interesting (Alexandr Rodchenka) who is a Russian designer and sculptor. He has a series of hanging sculptures,  made with plywood. I took my previous design and I incorporated it into the hanging design. I think the result is pretty good.

Triangular Sculpture

Metal lengths layed out for measuring.

Cutting the lengths with an angle grinder.

Spot welding the pieces together.

All the pieces welded upright onto a base.

I have created the design for this sculpture by closely investigating the shapes in the chainsaw sculpture which I have previously made. I wanted to create a movement in the perspective of the object. I am playing around with the different ways I can manipulate one shape by cutting, tilting and angling it in different directions.

Rusted lock, stitched into canvas.

Beginning the stitching proccess into the canvas.

Sprinkling the steel wool into the canvas.

Steel wool rusting into the canvas to create the colour.

I wanted to experiment with rusting different materials. In this experiment I have stitched steel wool into a cloth canvas. I had to roll the the steel wool by hand, which took a bit of time. I then stitched in my design. When I was finished I chopped up the steel wool into little bits and sprinkled them onto the canvas in the areas that I wanted to rust the most.