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| The Opening of Ronald MacDonald House Family Room at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) |
My steam bent, white oak sculpture is now hanging at CHEO after a month or more of my sawing, bending and
sanding in the studio.
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| Hot pipe bending a white oak ring for the sculpture |
The sculpture is 6' x 9' and each ring is about 6" tall and 1/8" in thickness.The rings were bent on a hot pipe bender. The two outer rings were laminated together to create a solid anchor for the installation. The inner rings were bolted together with aluminium spacers to give the sculpture a light and airy feeling.
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| Experimenting in the shop |
To provide the necessary support I created decorative webbing to link the rings to each other. The project was a wonderful design exercise - a great reminder of the positive nature of negative space.
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| Structural support masquerading as decoration |
Thanks to Ginny, Brian and Oliver and of course my Dad for their help with this project.
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