Portrait

Form is important. These are an ever continuing project that I really enjoy doing. Borrowing for classic portrait photo styles I have tried to bring personality and life to each one of these working tools. Some of these images will be used in future projects, I think they're pretty sweet on their own.

Portrait 1

The posturing in each one of these reads like subtle body language. 

Portrait 2

Above image has a bit of "tart" to it

Portriat 3

This speaks single parent family

Portriat 4

Imagine a proud, life long worker, proudly displaying the fruit of his labor. 

I I will be doing large format limited prints of these in the near future.  

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"Extension"

Some tools, no, most tools have a soul.  These 5 awl's have a history or a memory longer than my time here. When I look at the wear, the patina, the imperfections of the tips of the steel, they were all made by the work and effort of the worker that engaged them.

This is a visual representation of the extension of one's hand. 

Study #1

Photo by Glenn H Smith

Study #2

Photo by Glenn H Smith

"257" work in progress

"257" is a piece I am working on that in hope, I will touch a nerve of the patience and diligence that this tool provided. There are 257 teeth on the full length of the blade of this saw. My art that I am going top bring forward is to use a repetitious rituals to accentuate the 257 teeth that have worked so diligently throughout its history.

I will be counting the teeth 257 times and documenting each pass with a small drill hole in the field of the body of the saw. Secondly, I will be sawing through pieces of wood 257 times. Lastly, I will take 257 strokes of the saw in a piece of lumber exactly 257 mm long and then retire the saw completely from any future work.

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Upcoming Work

I take inspiration from the forgotten, the silent, and the useful. When I find things to work with or thing that "speak" to me, it is very rarely nature or a beautiful sunset, it is more the smell of a moldy garage or abandoned factory. I look for the stories of the workers and laborers, the machinery that made outlives and their lives better, or worse. 

Here are a few things that I will bemusing in my next set of sculptures for the series I have been working on called simply, Mechanical Love Stories. 

Honor

After some fabrication, I am well on my way.  

This is a mock up so far, the display is part of the overall concept.

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