Stainless Steel Disk

I make these in various diameters, from 23 to 46 inch diameters. No two are alike. What’s amusing is watching people trying to figure out if they are flat.
They are. The 3 dimensions are an illusion.

Stainless Steel Disk with 3D appearance
Stainless Steel Disk with 3D appearance

I make the color with a torch. There is no paint or dye. This one was 39 inches in diameter and sold shortly after I posted this photo. I have made others since then.

Long tube fluorescent lighting is not the best for showing the dimension in this piece. Almost any other lighting is better. The more sources of it, the better. The average living room has enough.

Two questions I am asked regularly are “What inspired it?” and “How long did it take to make?”

In general, ideas come from a place where there are no words. Sometimes it is a feeling. Other times it is a piece of metal, maybe a disk, when I have time to play, and end up making disk after disk for years, most with three dimensional effects, but no two the same. Finally, one had a glimmer of the movement I now produce. Half a year later, as I continued to develop that, and continued to show them in my studio, someone asked the price. And how long it took to make.

A car is on the assembly line for maybe 20 hours. Is that how long it took to make? Or do we include the years it took to get it there?

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