Connections in Tension

This sculpture is the latest in a a body of work I'm calling "Connections in Tension". The overall aesthetic is influenced by images of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider; specifically focused on ideas of energy transfer and implied motion. Traditional forging techniques and mechanical connections are employed as design elements to highlight intersections between components.

Candelier

Here are a few pictures of a candelier I made for a hammer-in recently. It is held together by tension. If you pull the center pin, it all falls apart.

Metal Forming at Medwedeff Forge & Design

Here are a few great technical pictures of hot forming metal at Medwedeff Forge. If you are not familiar with John Medwedeff's work, check it out.

Brinksty Forge-In

Here are a few pictures from the annual forge-in at Brinksty Forge on April 28. Brinksty Forge is the shared workshop of Henry Ponfret, Tony Ingarfield, and the one and only, Adrian Legge. The day was filled with forging and the night was filled with grilled meat, ale, and good music. As always, a great time was had by all and many great objects were forged.

This year's theme for the forging competition was "spring", so Sam Pearce and I decided to join up and forge bumble bee from a 40 mm bolt and nut.

Special thanks to Dave Dewson for the professional photography.

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Brinksty Forge

Words of wisdom. I like number ten.

The Man

THE BIG RIVET!!!

I'm coming to the end of my gate construction now and just fitting everything together. The last big step before replacing all the bolts with rivets and sending it off for galv and paint was to fix the two cross elements with a huge rivet. Yes, it was every bit as fun as it looks in the video, probably more so for Matt Garton and Sam Pearce as they were swinging the sledges. 

Thanks to Ben Davey and Katie Write for filming!