Nessie gets a stainless scarf...

These photos illustrate the teamwork necessary to fabricate one of these large sculptures... and one of the reasons why they cost so much. I promised the folks over at Blinn College I would keep them posted via this blog, so they could see our progress.

The sculpture will weigh around a thousand pounds after it is assembled, perhaps more. We are creating this contemporary steel monolith at Hughes Fabrication, here in Navasota.

My current project! For Blinn College in Brenham, Texas.

I have been commissioned by Blinn College to sculpt a ten-foot tall steel sculpture to be placed in front of the Blinn Band Hall. Working with the Music Department, especially Larry Campbell, the Music Director there for many years, I designed a contemporary form that says music... and if all goes well it will also make music!

What you are looking at is the maquette for this project, a tin miniature.

The shiny windy silvery part will be made to be like keys, that can be struck to make different "notes." Construction is to begin very soon on this, the first sculpture for that campus!