Making waves - mesh waves that is

 

A few folk have commented on the fact that Fiona and I fashioned the wave to mount the 100 boats on for the exhibition at the Strathnaver Museum Annex at the gallery itself. 

Though we have made the excellent decision this trip to hire a small van as you can see in front of the cottage; and whilst it is good for carrying loads of stuff as you see in the photo below - it was not capable of carrying a fully formed wave.

In the photo above you can see the plastic barrels we borrowed and cleaned from down at the fishing huts air the cove - see photo above.

The wave forming was done on the side verandah of the new Annex. The 6MX.9M roll of mesh (1.6mm thick with 25mm square apertures) was rolled and stomped out flat on some old curtains to protect the tiles.

The mesh was then wrapped around the barrel; and to get the sharp front edge of the wave as we rolled the mesh in reverse we clamped a timber board to the mesh and barrel. 

The process of forming the smaller waves was to create a forward curve and then fold the mesh back on itself - hands and feet were involved in this process.

We knew we would need to finesse the wave form so we attached the ends to the display table, covered with the old curtains, with clamps  and stretched and teased the shape until we were satisfied with the form below

The wave could then be mounted on the dark ocean blue fabric we had brought from Australia with us; and be held in place with rocks from a couple of the fishing coves.

So there you have it - mesh wave forming!!!!!! Wave ready for boat installation. We created a 2.8m wave form from 6m of mesh. It was-is a lovely form in its own right. The barrel was returned to the cove.