Welcome back from that looooong commercial break. Today we will have an excited guest on the show and have pictures galore! Are you ready?!! Did you say ready? Cuz, uh, I can't hear you reading this, if you want to call....oh right never mind, of course your ready. :D
What we have here today is the final product for the MAJOR SCULPTURE PROJECT : SCALE!
Inspirations for this live wire of a piece is brought to you by none other than MY DESK! That's right folks, straight from Athena's desk, she saw it there, a quill, a pen, a thing used to put ink to paper and did you know it was sharp? Sharp like what you might ask....(did you ask?) Sharp like a sword, thats what and you know what they say right?
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!
Now how was this task accomplished you might ask, well they gave her fire, they gave her steal, and showed her how to bend it to her will! MURAHAHAHAHA! ahem, anyway, the idea for the sword pen was born and as toiled with preliminary sketch after preliminary sketch something just seemed to be missing. Hmm, you know what, I think its time to introduce todays guest, give it up ladies and gentlemen for JENISA!!!!
You know what Jenisa says, What is a pen without ink? and you know what she was right. So we put our heads together and collaborated on the epic creation that was my giant sword pen and her huge ink well. This all came in parts of course.
First Part was the sword handle, ten inch steal tube tapered and welded together with 20 feet of pencil rod tightly coiled around the tube and about two feet of flat bar welded and twisted to complete the design. Behold!
After that came the pain staking task of getting a perfectly straight six foot long piece of clear fur 4x4. But find it we did, take back to the school we did, and me and the mighty Rob of the Sculpture lab ripped that wood so much it made its one point, or rather four of them. After that it was only a matter of cutting the quill head out of the steal panel and welding and bending it to be ready to put on the wood. All said and done the sword pen was born.
Once that part was done, we simply had to add the awesome ink well to make the delivery complete. What needs to be expressed more than anything is that we bleed for our art and our art is our voice to the rest of the world. No matter what we are saying with our work it is a precious language that we speak. So together Jenisa and I made ink for the well and wrote with the pen that would dominate any sword and be a instrument of voice.
I combined this idea with a print I did that is an example of how my voice speaks out in my work for human rights and social change.
As far as what I learned and accomplished in this endeavor I think this is one of my best pieces yet and I only hope to improve. Thanks Jenisa you are a rock star and we hope to have you on the show again!
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