Over the weekend I have been working on a couple of small post assemblage-sculptures for our side garden.
I almost completed one as you can see from the opening photo. The post is about 80-90cm tall and 15cm square. The timber is salvaged rose gum I think - an Australian hardwood.
A few years ago I had made a bench seat for G to take a rest on as he did his daily walk. Later it was moved to near a post sculpture F and I did for the area we planted out when we came to live at the village - see photo below.
The area is being redeveloped so we removed the post sculpture which is now at the front of our home; we salvaged the top planks of the bench seat. The timber is a bit worse for wear - see photo below of the timber on the work bench; but we thought it could be repurposed as small garden post sculptures.
Some of the process-progress photos follow.
The timber looks better after a good sand with a belt sander. The squiggly groove routed freehand into the timber with a small can shaped router represents the local creek. As you can see from one of the progress photos the groove is painted with Japanese black ink so the line will stand out. Rusty bits are added from our rust stash - though there is not to choose from these days.
If time permits I will finish the second post during the week; and then they will be installed.
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