This is a sample for a current railing job I'm working on.
Years ago I fantasized that this 1" x 2" rectangular tubing might indeed collapse the way you see in this image ,if brought to heat in the forge and pulled around a scroll jig.My reasoning was based on the assumption that,all things being equal and the heat even throughout,there would still remain some structural integrity at the corners of the tubing that would hold the rectangular cross section while the broad flat faces all collapse in and the edge faces bulge out. This gives a lovely ,almost ORGANIC aesthetic to the scroll which is quite tactile and simply begs to be gripped.

I just secured this commission over the holidays.It is designed for "Palm Square Sopping Center",so though it is site specific ,my clients knew before hand pretty much what they wanted, so there was little creative input on my part. Sometimes you just have to give people what they want,not necessarily what you think they need...This is one of those times.

This is an eight strand weave,in stainless wire.
It's a good material for this design because even though the weave itself requires forging (with the acetylene torch)to make it tight,the final shaping of the WHOLE piece can be done by hand cold.

Here's a curious little design problem.
I've been trying to figure out how to make a fairly realistic pine cone by the fabrication process WITHOUT having to make each individual petal by hand.
I finally hit upon the idea of punch parts as my stock repeatable shape. I have access to a marvelous old J.C.Whitney punch and generated a bucket of ovals from a sheet of 3/16th silicon bronze.

Since I have posted a fair amount of work in the galleries of ArtMetal,but without personal info,I thought it appropriate at this point to provide links to interviews,websites and other galleries to provide some context on my work,history,motivation and process.I ask the indulgence and pardon of all members for dumping so many images at one time.