Comments and thoughts please :)

I like it.
Travis

Ian , COOL

Keep that sorta stuff up & u'll soon be puttin' David outta business ....

Dale Russell

uuummmm....what????

Interesting. What is it made from? looks like mild steel and bronze mesh

Justin, It's forged 1" square mild steel and steel mesh. I sprayed it gold with silver highlights, the rest was finished in satin black. It stands exactly six inches high and to me is a more of a maquette for a much bigger piece (6 feet) than a stand alone work.

I like it. Find a way to project someones face through it(via mirrors?) and it becomes an interactive sculpture. Anyone could become the man behind the iron mask.

Nicely done Ian - I like it!

Thanks Ian. This looks good and has a nice emotional response. I look forward to seeing more :)

really love this piece Ian what did you form the face over?
If this is the maquette i would love to see the full size sculpture. in fact if you need assistance i am available!! Have you seen the sculptural face at Bedes World in Jarrow? It is amazing, and i think it is made from fine firescreen mesh.
Good work bud.

Thanks Adrian, I really appreciate it. Haven't seen that face but I'll try and find some images (I'm curious it might be David Begbie's work). The mesh was worked free hand, no moulds or such, some hand tools to push against like wooden dowling or a butter knife (LOL high tech eh?) for instance.
It was heavily influenced by Davids work and as his technical assistant and a Blacksmith I was really interested in seeing how the semi transparent mesh would work against solid heavily forged iron. This is the end result of that first experiment and I think it works, it certainly would on a much bigger scale I feel sure.

Edited July 24, 200817 yr by Ian

Weird. Odd. Different. Some may find it creepy.
I liked it immediately!
Good show Ian! Did you weave the mesh yourself?
What technique did you use to form the facial features?
Dan.:cool:

I love the whole concept!! Leaves the viewer to decide what it"means" Most of the sculpture I have domne means I felt like making those shapes, but I won't argue with someone paying cash!
Finnr

Ian: I am impressed very nice work. It wasn't until I enlarged the pictures did I realize you used mesh to form the faces. Very nice work. William

Ian. I like it very much. I can picture it as half of a "Comedy - Tragedy" pair.

Thanks guys. I've been putting a few sketches together to explore how far this theme could be taken (Very far, it's got tremendous scope) The mesh is woven as its made at the factory, it's usually used in heavy industry as part of filtrations systems. Because it's woven it can be stretched and bunched and worked almost like a flat piece of clay ('almost' being the operative word!) it's a lot of pushing and pulling. Getting somthing recogniseable out of it is down to you

AS AN ASIDE:

APOLOGIES TO ALL BUT I MAY BE OFF THE FORUM FOR A WHILE, MY LAPTOP HAS BEEN HIT WITH A VIRUS OR HACKER AND IS OFFLINE UNTIL I CAN GET IT FIXED. EVERYTHING 'AFTER' OZ is at stake so I'm taking no chances.
I'm using the PC at Davids Studio today so at best I'll be checking in once a week till I can get the old faithful back up and running. Speak to you all soon I hope

so so great! Do you show your art? If not you totally should!

Its all in yer Mind Mate the page is blank, just like the look on yer mug when you chuted into Oz!