Breakthrough!

I do love this bit where you finally break through the middle and now the shaping takes place from the inside out as well as from the outside in.

From here it feels like progress is accelerating as soon you can judge how the sweeps align. Slightly panic inducing at times when nothing really seems to come out where you thought it would but great satisfaction when parts come together

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From making the hole through to this point seemed to take no time at all and it is quickly coming to the really fun part of making a sculpture.

Aussie rock

We had a lovely hike out on the high plains of Victoria, real Man From Snowy River country, and I came across this rock.

Sadly it was huge and part of the mountain so I couldn’t prise it out and put it in a backpack to bring back to my studio to play with.

Back again

The silver wire twist has been sitting on my windowsill for months but until I got the inspiration to weave the copper wire through it, it was just a rather elegant but unfathomable shape as far as a maquette went.

In my excitement about getting back to work, I forgot to photograph the stone with all of it’s craggy protrusions, but here it is, all the usable mass, ready to align the maquette and get going.

The stone looks like it could turn out to be really translucent and quite deep in colour possibly like bitter beer but it’ll be a while before that’s obvious.