Eat or Be Eaten

Fish Food

This assignment was to work with metal or wire. I've been working on a piece for the Art League, "Eat Me" exhibit. So I've been cutting shapes from sheet copper, shaping, texturizing and detailing them (remember your copper pictures from Jr. High shop class?) Salt and vinegar gives a lovely blue-green patina on copper. Liver of sulfur blackens the surface.

The first piece is my favorite - The fish are created in the manner described above, and are mounted on a spiral of copper wire. The base is of melted plastic (remember the light project?) and then placed on a slab of sandstone. This little table sculpture is in the current Columbia Art League juried show.

The middle piece, "Fish Food" is mounted on a brass strip and uses seaweed with a blue-green patina. I thought burlap and a nice stained board made great contrast to the metal.

"Fish," the bottom piece is mounted in a black shadow box. Can you tell I've been spending time with my goldfish pond? I really enjoy working with copper - it is so easy to shape and lends itself to textures very well. Besides that, it is just a pretty color!