Purple Thang

Neo-Psycho-delic! That's what we have here. This piece seems to be some type of throw-back to the days of hipsters, kaleidoscope sunglasses and unlawful mushrooms.

I did this as a 'thank you' for one of my workmates because she had given me a bunch of very long, plastic drafting curves that her dad had used in his work. He had given them to her because he didn't need them any more. Since she does all her drafting on the computer she had no use for them either and, when I mentioned that I needed something along those lines for my artwork, she gave them to me.

Therefore I used one of them to develop the shapes of the metal portions of this artwork. Once again, it is recycled can metal modified by torch.

However, I found it much too tedious to cut the curves into the metal with perfectly matching, interlocking curves, so I gave up on it and let it lie dormant for a while. In the meantime I invented the torched CD/DVD material and so I decided to finish the piece with that. The DVDs torch to a delightful purple tinged with golds and in the right light and at the right angle they show incredible, firey spectrum colors as well. The photo does not do this justice at all - it should only be viewed in direct sunlight for full effect.

I signed the piece in a somewhat unique way - cutting out an H and a W from a bit of wording on a CD and gluing them within the bottom border as initials.

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