But Creston eat your heart out, unless that is, you would like to install electirc in these. www.crestonelectric.com
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| A note to the viewer from the author. Progress shown from present to past. | 08.17.10 Carving what amounts to a series of urban totems. | The router I'm using was recommended by Creston Lea. |
But Creston eat your heart out, unless that is, you would like to install electirc in these. www.crestonelectric.com |
Exact plastic copy of the patterned tree trunk. Inlay next. | Plaster/rubber mold and PVC knockout awaiting liquid plastic. | Plaster hardshell and blanket rubber mold. Does this make sense? | The plaster hardshells sealed, ready to fill with rubber. | Disassembling plaster hardshell to remove clay blanket. | Clay blanket gets covered with plaster and later replaced with rubber | Images of Outremont, Montreal and Le Vesinet lightly scribed. | These images will later be carved out of the tree. | 06.29.10 The Illustrator templates will be tranformed into cast inlays during subsequent steps – coffee cup is for scale | 36" print of Outremont/Le Vesinet templates | Trunks at The Barn with one coat of Interlux Brightside | Trunks primed with Interlux Prekote system | Grinding the excess steel from the base plates | Templates for the base plates and half inch steel plasma cut | 06.07.10 Studio view and tree trunks being prepared for paint | Plywood template approximates the available space for the work | Sawing the bases clean with Tajima | Drawing of Le Vesinet, Outremont's kindred city outside of Paris | 05.21.10 Map of Outremont routed into prototype . Voids will accomodate inlays in cast black rubber | Cast plaster replica of prototype provides inlay material | Blanket mold transfers map to cast plaster | Drawning of Outremont, Montreal guides inlay process | Rendered proposal for 1160 Van Horne, Montreal. Wood, resin, cast rubber |