1″x 3.5″, spoon and scrap steel
Instead of being in my studio full of glass, I spent the weekend welding at Snow Farm. After making a carload of large sculptures I used my last few minutes to gather smaller bits from the mountain of scrap metal and to pull out the pieces I’d cut from sheet metal with the plasma cutter. This pendant combines a spoon and some hand-cut scrap into a graceful leaf-shaped pendant. While eventually I’d like every weld of mine to be beautiful, for now I love knowing what James Kitchen, our amazing instructor, taught us, that although they’re imperfect, the welds are much stronger than the metal that they’re connecting. I like the idea that by being connected each piece becomes stronger.