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.
I make the color with a torch. There is no paint or dye.
This one was 39 inches in diameter and sold for $1,500 shortly after I posted this photo. If you want to see the next ones, click Contact. Let me know and I’ll post them here or send them to you.
Two questions I get asked regularly are “What inspired it?” and “How long did it take to make?”
Sometimes the inspiration is just a piece of metal in my hand with me wondering what I could turn it into. Once it was a disk. For a period of years, I made disk after disk after disk, often hanging nothing on the walls of my studio but disks, each with a different design as I explored what could be done. Most of them had three dimensional effects, but no two had the same one, until one had a glimmer of the movement I now produce. For months I continued to work on that particular effect. Even now, after all this practice, it still is the case that if I don’t make one for a month or two, the first one will not quite rise to the level I want. Usually, the second one won’t either. The third has a 50% of getting there. The fourth usually will. That’s a lot of stainless-steel becoming scrap just to get one right. So, while I’m in the groove, I make several that usually (not always) turn out right. But “right” doesn’t mean “duplicate.” Even after all this practice, each is unique, like siblings, obviously from the same family but not the same.
So how long did it take to make this one? Your car was on the assembly line for maybe 20 hours. Is that how long it took to make? Or do we get to count the years it took to get it there?