I attach the lath with airplane safety wire. Think of lath as the skin. Once the armature is covered in lath/skin, I will add the fur/soil/dried native plants.
Endangered Knowledge: The Soul of Humus
A few weeks ago Nash Baker took some in progress shots of my SMH piece. Then I had two weeks of off and on heat exhaustion. It is a rough summer to have an outdoor living sculpture and a piece that requires welding in a space that does not gave AC. I have finally replenished the minerals in my body and I am back to work on my bison. The temperatures are going to be extremely high this week to work outside. :(
Working on Endangered Knowledge: The Soul of Humus in my garage welding studio
Photo by Nash Baker
Endangered Knowledge: The Soul of Humus
Progress from the last two days of work.
Sagged bellie and manhood
Endangered Knowledge: The Soul of Humus
Todays work- His right back haunch and leg.
Endangered knowledge: the Soul of Humus.
SMH fall of 2020 was canceled due to Covid 19 last July of 2020. I put a halt on welding my piece and focused on planning “Symbiosis.” “Symbiosis” is installed the Big Show is opened which provided a tremendous amount of traffic. I will still check on it every day, but I will spend most of my day building my piece for SMH 2021. Today I started where I left off. Below are images from last year's work and blog posts.
When I stopped in 2020 I had the hooves on steel plate bases and new where I wanted them to bare the weight.
Today I cut the rebar to form the lover part of the legs and grinded the tips. Tomorrow I weld.
Some of my notes from measuring Epics Bob the bison January of 2020.
My bison will be in motion not standing still.
The skull and upper jaw.
And lower jaw
4 pieces of rebar cut for each leg will provide the structure of the lower legs.