Artsifarsis

Byproducts of the creative process.

(K.Welch photo, carving.)

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Wire sculpture, after viewing ‘Diana’ bronze casting at the Colby College art museum.

Aluminum and mild steel.

Mailbox post.  Angle steel and cast iron piano string anchor plate.  Badly damaged by a presumably drunk driver during the winter of 2011.  Rehab scheduled for summer 2012.

Stainless steel ‘shrub’ with bird. Rod, carbon and stainless plate, kitchen utensils, Tig weld

Detail.

Reindeer. Torch cut carbon steel plate, stainless remnants, Tig weld.

Adapted from the designs of Rotraut Postler.

“Stratton House” Linoleum block print. (My residence the first winter at Sugarloaf).

“Guggenheim”  Collagraph print.

Ice bloom.  Mother Nature, in the style of O’Keefe.

Memorial for ‘Cat’. Stainless, carbon steel, ball bearings, Tig weld.

Collaboration.

Plasma cut wheelbarrow (K.Welch), stainless remnants, Tig weld.

“Ride on you Crazy Dolphin”  Mother Nature, water vapor.

Chickadees.  Torch cut carbon steel, stainless remnants, Tig weld.

(Cooking with leftovers)

Adapted from the designs of Rotraut Postler.

Reindeer.  Torch cut carbon plate, machined stainless tubing.

Adapted from the designs of Rotraut Postler.  Truck courtesy International Harvester.

Feng shui rooster.  Torch cut carbon steel plate, SAAB 900 gearbox dogs, Tig weld.

Adapted from the designs of Rotraut Postler.

Family photo, ‘lucky corner’.

Ensemble with ceramic pig.