Wood news

The two aluminiun stars are now welded together. I hope to be able to get them from the foundry next week.

Meanwhile Gunnar is making progress with the wood star.

Gunnar is using a pointing machine to transfer measurements from my 1:1 model to the wood.

Photos: Gunnar Englund.

Woodwork

I received these photos from Gunnar at Fantasilaboratoriet who is working on the wood star. I think his solution of the construction looks great. I'm excited to see his progress with the work.

Hanåsa Sågverk delivered the wood for the star.

Lumber.

The construction.

This will be the profile.

Photos: Gunnar Englund.

History

So what's been going on exept for working on the stars? I have spent a lot of time at Ölands Folkhögskola working with my students the two last weeks of their year at Basår Design. I have also been teaching at Linnaeus University. This week I had the privilege to be one of the teacher opponents for the bachelor students final examination at the Design Programme. They all presented really intreseting projects. Good luck to all of you!

There was an opportunity to see some great art at Wanås skulptural park two weeks ago. Here I am climbing one of Yoko Onos ladders in her ladder piece at the opening May 15. Photo: Elin Stenberg

And here's ms Ono. Photo: Wanås Konst, Sweden

News

About three weeks ago I was able to deliver the two models to the foundry. This after I got the stainless steel inserts for the fountation ready. The will be cast in to the aluminium. The inserts were fabricated by Nybro Rör och Mekaniska. A small mechanical workshop located in Nybro, about 20 km from my studio. Many thanks to Bengt Selander and the other guys at the shop.

These are the people making it happen at the foundry, Mönsterås Metall. We decided to cast the smaller star in a slghtly harder quality of aluminium. I plan to polish it and the harder surface will make it easyer to polish. The thickness of the goods will be roughly 20 mm.

I got a call from Jan this week telling me they have casted both stars. They are now delivered to another shop were the halves will be welded together.

Cutting

With both models sawn in two, I cut off a bit of the two lower points of each star. For the plates for bolting the stars to the foundation.

With a litte help...

Started to saw the green star in two. It will be cast in two halves and then welded together. After half an hour I realised i wasn't going to manage to saw through. But Lars G saved my day and came by to help me solve the problem. Many thanks Lars!

Busy

The first model is deliveried to Gunnar. He will pick up the wood for it and start working on it this week. Almost finished the second and third 1:1 model. For the silver star and the green star. I'm heading up to the foundry with both models on thursday.

The pink material is almost to soft to work with.

Cherry Blossom

I went to Hanemålaskolan to plan for the documentation of my Cherry Blossoms in the schools library. Just like the stars, these paintings are inspired by japanese origami.

Sound today: The Felice Brothers – The Felice Brothers

Getting there.

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Some progress today.

Todays soundtrack: Porcupine Tree – The Incident

Carving

Started working on model number two. This is for the wood star. I hope to have it finished this week so Gunnar can start sculpting in wood.