Now that’s some shiny public art! Just got the first of the two hand sculptures back from electropolishing, and it’s looking good with all the surfaces and welds all shined up to a nearly mirror finish! Love how it reflects the surrounding environment.
Thought this view of the hand being moved around in the shop looked interesting, and decided to share it:
Work continues on the 9/11 Memorial sculpture. This public art is requiring a massive investment of labor, each of the nearly 3000 parts requiring custom fitting to the overall shape. Below is a photo of the progress and a video showing one of the parts being fit.
Video and stills of Heath Satow Sculpture’s latest public art piece, titled “Ripple”.
Aluminum and granite, twenty feet wide by six feet tall.
Inspired by Karesansui (“Zen”) gardens, combining the directional “combing” of patterns with ripples emanating from three mirror-polished black granite spheres. 240 panels make up the surface illusion, each 3/8″ thick aluminum (sanded sides, polished edges) set at a 45-degree angle to the wall.
Time-lapse video of the installation:
Photos:
Work is continuing on the 9/11 Memorial sculpture. Lots and lots of parts for this public art…
Currently we’re in the process of making a 9/11 Memorial Sculpture, and I have a section of an I-beam from the World Trade Center. It’s sobering to look at this thing and think about the fact that this was a strong, straight beam prior to the attacks of 9/11/2001. Part of the process of making this public sculpture involved turning the one length of beam into three: we have a fourteen-foot long section of I-beam, and need one ten-foot section for the sculpture itself, then two smaller sections that will be used for indoor displays about 9/11.
I made a short time-lapse video of the process mostly using a camera we recently set up in the studio to document the progress of sculpture projects. It’s less than two minutes long, but covers the entire process of cutting and slightly smoothing the raw edges (so they won’t cut anyone that touches the beam):
If I do say so myself, this sculpture is starting to look really sexy. I can’t wait to get it all installed. Check out the video below to see how the light plays across the surface:
The mounting system for installing this sculpture is ready. Now they just need a light coat of flat black paint. This photo is of a bunch of them all stacked up, and yes, it’s confusing when you see it like this — suffice it to say, though, that even though you’ll never see these parts once the installation of this public art is complete, they are vital to holding it all together, and every little detail has been worked out. Since you’ll never see this part, why am I showing a photo of them all stacked together here? Well, because I thought it looked cool. 🙂
This sculpture installation should be happening in the coming couple of weeks, as soon as the building construction is far enough along for us to come in and install this art. So for now, maybe just one more teaser…
Lots and lots and lots of aluminum polishing going on here. Here’s another “teaser” shot of a stack of a few of the parts for this sculpture:
