Ever Inquisitive

This is the second piece completed in the welding class taken at Arrowmont.  Because it was a weekend class, 2 1/2  days of instriction/shop time, ideas are limited to what can be accomplished in the time allowed.  So with that, I stayed with the frame theme.  This next idea popped into my head but I did not have the specialty items needed to pull it off...an interesting book to disassemble then reassemble or a magnifying glass.  Hum, the book I could handle.  The school library has a free section and I have always found what I needed there.  Where luck came in was that the supply shop (I could  brouse in there all day) had a magnifying glass that worked perfectly for $1.85.  What a bargain.  I am genuinely amazed that the shop has fulfilled my needs/whims with each visit.

The book I chose was about an artist named Joe Zucker (1941-), showing  his more abstract work in both color and black and white.  This was not someone I was familiar with so getting up close and personal as I manipulated his creations was interesting.  It was a simple pamphlet stitch book but his use of vibrent colors made the art piece pop.

  

On my first peruse of the book I found the words "ever inquisitive" and knew the phrase had to be an intracle part of the piece.   That is where the little circular magnifier within the larger magnifier came into play.  After my book was bound and covered I attached the phrase to a small piece of book board and using wire manipulated it so it could be seen by looking through the sweet spot. Again with the viewer interaction. 

It is finally the weekend and I have a couple of projects on the workbench waiting patiently for me to figure out their end result. As the angry elf says, I have one that I am super psyched about. So far it has moved along with out too much of a struggle so that my be the one I put my energy into this evening... after a healthy helping of ham biscuits and some cooked apples.

Peace,

Hilari 

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