Thanks Robert,
I am such a reactive enthusiast to a feult. But on occasions I actually do succeed in exploiting new knowledge I get from each of you on OPF.
Honestly, I had never heard of Pyrite before and now I am spending more time searching for crystals than I have ever spent looking at pictures of actors available for studio shoots!
...and that was a huge passion for me! I haven’t said goodbye to photographing models but natures inorganic beauty is hard to ignore once we have seen it’s amazing flashing angles and colors!
I have begun to model the pyrite egg forms to become 12 ft steel works on the approach to a grand plaza I envisage in thesculpture garden I am designing for a commission I hope to secure.
Asher Kelman: Maquotte #P001
This is early stage, done in Solidworks. It will be redone in 3DS MAX to make a 3D version for a presentation video.
But to fabricate it, I will have to continue to model more simply in Solidworks as that is the ONLY route I know to fabrication drawings and files to run 6 Axis CNC to actually create the crystals!
After the very accurate form is made it needs to be transformed from a simplified “cartoon” of a natural rock to having the naturally irregular fissures and random cavities, each revealing a landscape of valleys and hillside of unexpected angles, fused forms and layers that are at once, surprisingly disordered yet seemingly organized by an edict of nature!
In the end, all the irregular edges I will do by hand! I will mark and a steel worker, Chewie my talented metal worker and dear friend will grind or cut for me and then I will Mark again or add back steel where needed and set in crystal formations cut in another workshop.
I will only be satisfied when I have created a worthy sibling that would mineralogist as the most fabulous and genuine pyrite cluster on the planet!
It’s all a dream, until I get it approved which might be in two weeks, a months or never!
....and owes to Antonio for educating me about Pyrite in the first place!
Asher
