Year Two Day One Hundred and Four - Band Saw

Dear all

Today I started work on my final sculpture project of the year: A site specific installation! *tremble*. The master wood shop technician, Niall ( I promised him I would mention his website - check out his work.. outrageously good http://nialldonaghy.com/site/) tentatively agreed to let me lose on the 'band saw' - quite a moment as I have am increasingly reputation for self harm in the wood shop (chisel's cut me... by accident of course). 

The band saw is a very small blade that moves very fast... not for the faint hearted therefore. I wanted to cut out two large oval pieces of wood to start my armature and the band saw is [actually] the quickest and probably safest route. 

 It was actually very easy to manipulate the wood ( see above * these are not my hands *) and I managed to get the job done in around 5 minutes - MUCH quicker than if I had used my Swedish Saw!

I then started to cover the wooden shapes with chicken wire.... and then plaster and burlap.. .but more on that to come!

 A great day's work ad I still have all my fingers - HURRAY!

And in other news:
1. The 2nd years have opened a show at the Georgian Gallery! I went to the opening last night but forgot to bring my cell phone.. so sadly no pictures.

I managed to take some piccies this morning instead... so imagine these images with lots of people milling around sipping wine and eating bite size cup cakes... very fabulous. The show was excellent - congrats to all the second years!