Studio Musings

Monday, April 14, 2008

Raw Tenacity

That has to be one of the nicest ways of describing the madness that is bead art - raw tenacity. And boy did I feel it yesterday!

Sunday night I started working on one of the few assignments that David has actually asked us to complete - to cover a found object. I believe my object originally belonged under the hood of a car. My working title is "Car Part #1". (Not saying that there will ever be a Car Part #2). It fits in the palm of my hand, to give a sense of scale. Anyone who can identify the part should chime in - I'd love to know what the darned thing actually is.


So, Sunday night I cleaned it up, and started beading. By the time I left the studio at 10:30 that night, I'd beaded the central threaded pipe. Monday I continued, working on the base. That is one complex shape, I've come to realize! I spent the day, and much of the evening working on it. A number of experiments got discarded along the way and as of 10:30 last night, this is all I'd accomplished.

Though I did take a little over an hour yesterday evening to play over at the wood studio. They were wrapping more "sticks" for a barbed wire cutting this weekend and invited people to come and help out.

4 comments:

  1. According to Jeffer in Kansas, it's an oil filter adapter for a Small block Chevy V-8.

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  2. Dan and Dad agree with Jeffer. Dan said something about a remote.

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  3. I think Dan probably said "We agree with Jeffer, so now give me back the danged remote!!"

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  4. You guys have stunned David with the speed with which you identified what to us was some arcane bit of car engine!

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