Emergence | James Ellingboe

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All trussed up for the trip to the powder coater

On the hook and back up on the table for finish welding

All tack welded together and upright again

$Setting up to climb inside and make the tack welds on the final set of fractals$

$Blocking the last of the fractals into place for tack welding$

Sculpture 75% assembled; time to select a color

The first six interior welds...hard to get to and hot...like working in an oven

150lbs tack-welded, only 60lbs to go...

$Tack-welding fractals into "quads"$

$Ready to start weld-up of "fractal" tendrils$

$Stiffening gussets installed underneath to prevent base "fractals" from spreading$

$Fitting up the base "fractals"$

$Welding up "fractal" pairs$

The joy of edge detailing

$Triangular "fractal" component production$

View of maquette

View of maquette

View of maquette

Applying base color to study maquette

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- scroll to bottom of page to begin fabrication process

All trussed up for the trip to the powder coater

On the hook and back up on the table for finish welding

All tack welded together and upright again

$Setting up to climb inside and make the tack welds on the final set of fractals$ $Blocking the last of the fractals into place for tack welding$

Sculpture 75% assembled; time to select a color

The first six interior welds...hard to get to and hot...like working in an oven

150lbs tack-welded, only 60lbs to go...

$Tack-welding fractals into "quads"$ $Ready to start weld-up of "fractal" tendrils$ $Stiffening gussets installed underneath to prevent base "fractals" from spreading$ $Fitting up the base "fractals"$ $Welding up "fractal" pairs$

The joy of edge detailing

$Triangular "fractal" component production$

View of maquette

View of maquette

View of maquette

Applying base color to study maquette