OntTheWing4

Mike Roig, Sculpture

On the Wing

A commissioned sculpture for Automation Direct

in Cumming, Ga.

Early July

Well I haven't been as regular in my updates as I anticipated. This project has required

a kind of deliberate focus that at times has required a meditative stamina that when I step

back at the end of the day just hasn't often led to high drama in the new visuals department.

But the end result certainly has drama. There was one big drop back and punt moment

in the middle of it all when I decided some seaming on the narrower sides was just never

going to resolve satisfactorily and I wound up cutting them out and replacing them.

My original drawings had led me to think I couldn't avoid seam work in those sections,

but when I laid out the new pattern on the steel I found a way to avoid having to middle

seam with no spare centimeter of metal to be found. And then it was back to sanding.

So finally it came time to put it all together for the first time. So it's all over but the hauling.