making the abaca coils 3d from the get go
Up to now, the coils have stayed on one plane, fabricated and dried on a flat table top. When we put them under stress while composing with them, they twisted into a more interesting and 3d shape.
We decided to get some of that third dimension into the casting stage.
Recently, some bright white rope was piled on a work table. We wanted the coil to look and act more rope-like and loop about in space from the get go.
The skewers and fences cut from flashing adapted well to lifting the coil up and around in space while restraining it.
A nice first effort, at right, seems to be stiff and tough enough to hold up to the rigors of composing. Still, it is fragile being so thin. We really liked the delicate line it introduced into our work. We wonder, however, how a thicker coil might work.
So, fattening up the coils became the next challenge. . .
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