I love the design! Is it difficult to work with steal? Was it just all created by welding and cutting out different pieces? I wish I was more familiar with the process of metal sculpture.

Steel really isn't too bad to work with. It has its' srengths and weaknesses. I learned the hard way and don't recomend it. These days there are tools available that can make some work quickly and inexpensively. After seeing your octopus ( fantastic) You might be interested looking up a plasma cutter. After reading about your enjoyment of cut-outs, you might really get allot out of the plasma cutter. You're definitly doing the right thing by following what you are naturally inclined to do. Translating that into another material will be rewarding. (plus the surfaces are virtually limitless!)
To more specifically answer your question. The work was heated in a forge (bright red hot) and pounded over an anvil. The flat pieces are hamered on one side so that the metal curls. The linear elements are hammered over the anvil and formed-tapered and twisted. (took me several tries). Most of the iron was then forge welded. The base was MIG welded (sort of the hot glue gun of steel).

It sounds like a very interesting and exciting process. Metal sounds complicated to work with, but it might be worth a try seeing how it's possible to get results like your work. Thanks for the information. Now I'll have to look more into it!

I love the free-fourm it has, and wish I could see other angles of it because of the abstraction that is. Total engufled though, because of the minor textures that add to the motion.

(this is like one of the longer comments I give here- DA tends to drain my 'critique' like skillz)

Cool thign about steel ('specialy iron) is that it oxydizes well! Yay!

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Why did the Malkavian cross the road?
To get to the Malkovian!

I love how soft you have made the metal feel... it seems quite dream like.

Thank you. When I was a boy growing up in TN, I had recieved a gun for my birthday. A few days later I went out and shot a crow and immediatly knew I had done something very wrong. It skittered throught the brush dying and the sculpture is about that umoment when I realized I wasn't a child anymore. It's strange how the sadness of a bad decision sticks.

Knowing the story makes it even more resonant.

Thanks, Whats your story?

That's some question! How do you mean?

Well the nature of fastening things together says quite a bit about the art, the material, and most interestingly - how the artist views the materials. Do they join things with risk, are the items assemble together to make a greater cohesion? Are they grouped with geat care to draw attention to the uniqness of the object?

So, Whats your story? is an open ended question.

First it is a way to better understand the work and the person behind the work.

Second its' a way for me to get to understand more about you.

Interesting art usually is made by interesting people.

Gregg