I cut out leaf forms for a garden sculpture about a week ago; and was left with gorgeous negative space leaf forms. Initially these were going to be ground and polished and left pretty much as the were. Fiona suggested they deserved more work - including cutting off the heavy excess metal and leaving a lighter form as you can see in the photo above. Quite a bit of cutting, grinding and polishing was required - but as you can see below the difference is worth it.
Having finished the forms the question is - should the negative space be backed with something like copper, copper patina, greyed timber, rust - or should it be left so that one can have leaves growing through them or at least behind them. Fiona's dad G turned up and joined the design discussion - he is of the view that there be no backing.
I had called Fiona over to the workshop to help me bend the leaf forms - getting some movement between the three. I could hold and bend the smallest leaf; but the other two required two sets of hands. I think we have achieved a good outcome.
We will sit with the negative space trio for now - they will tell us which way to go.
the negative forms rising out of the squared bases work so well ... and I'm sure you've already considered it, but wondering what the interior leaves look like canted and inserted within the negative forms
ReplyDeleteHi LA - thanks for your visit and comment. Glad you liked the forms emerging from the shared base. Regarding the canted leaves in the negative space - trouble is they detract from the clear lines of the negative space. I'm thinking I will mount the forms on a wooden log-sleeper with three grooves cut into it so the forms an be moved about and interchanged. Go well. B
ReplyDeletelove the idea of grooves and moving the forms about ...
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