The video and the finished object for ‘stone in a sea of fog’ were united for the first time on Monday of this week. The push was to get photographs of the complete piece so that they could be sent to a 2012 Open Competition, closing date of December 5. The E-entry went in earlier this morning and the entry fee was paid over the phone…now breath.
The meeting of the video monitor with it’s new container went without a hitch. The multiple measurings and re-checkings as the piece was built really paid off. The fit was exactly as planned. The lead is also looking good and will continue to darken as it oxidises, but it is getting a great sheen already and the interior vertical walls of the piece now ripple and glow with a soft reflection of the horizontal video image. I was just going to say that this was the critical point but that isn’t true. The real heart-stopper was the application of the lead-bead to the seams, the final construction act. I hadn’t anticipated too much in the way of problems with the 8 middle seams but it was the corners where I was anticpating trouble. However, after well tooling the lead on the inside and outside corners into its flat profile, the bead went on without any drama…magic.
Now back to the dissertation and getting stuff together for the formative assessment in the last week.
