This is an exciting month as I have my first public art up at the Union Gospel Mission in their new building on Hastings Street. Photos of the build are below. I also have a couple group shows: Connecting the Dots at the Five Sixty Club ...560 Seymour Oct 1/2 and The Retro Show Oct 15/16.
I am also going on a two week trip with my gal pal Dev to Santa Fe to visit a couple other gal pals! Lots of art, music, the hot air balloon show in Albuquerque, corn dance at the Taos Pueblo, and a few days on Route 66 in Arizona.
NOTE: November I will be in www.firstsaturday.ca and www.eastsideculturecrawl.com
Earlier this year Arnt and I received an email asking if the UGM knew anyone who makes crosses out of found objects. I immediately responded and asked Arnt if he would help. We had a meeting and here is the project! Our first collaboration and my first public art piece.
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| The column is from an east van house |
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| Cut the column in half |
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| scrapping the paint off |
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| we want to leave some paint on for that distressed look |
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| we will do two crosses and show one at the Crawl |
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| we are capping it with a pattern piece from Nye's Foundry on Powell |
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| The cross piece has to be distressed..here Arnt is using chain |
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| a hammer is used for a different look |
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| finally sanding out some stress patterns |
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| here it is put together |
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| we are using this cloth as a model for our cloth of copper |
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| we start with flat copper |
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| we need to crinkle it up to start the folds |
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| here it is crinkled |
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| we now have to open it up and fine tune the folds |
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| mocking up how it will hang |
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| measurements are good but looks a bit like a garland |
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| starting the patina process to make it verdigris |
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| we used a taiga torch and chemicals |
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| fine tuning the colours |
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| This should work |
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| Close up of the copper cloth |
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| The finished Cross |
