metal head -kes

Years ago while taking my work out on the road to fine art and craft fairs, I was taken by a fellow exhibitor's work at the Lyndhurst Castle Artrider Festival.  He made human scale flowers cut out of metal with a plasma cutter. These forms had all the appeal of Alice in Wonderland scale plus fire to make them. What's not to love? It's been over a decade since then and the desire to play with fire and metal isn't getting better. Actually it's worse since starting a visual arts master's degree at New Hampshire Institute of Art. Now there is a really good excuse for it at least. Carpe diem.

Plasma cutting is still on the back burner but metal and fire in the form of welding need not wait a moment longer. Its cold outside but the game is afoot. Don is my teacher and I am ever the humble student. We ran out of wire and got pretty cold but this post contains the first attempt at making some beads, attaching 2 pieces, and filling a gap. Raw and beautiful. Welding 101 begins.