Spreading Her Wings

Mike Roig, Sculpture

Spreading Her Wings

November 2018

Fabrication begins

The whirlwind of late fall has finally abated and after recharging the batteries it's good

to have a project like this to settle into. Step one, start drawing some patterns and

get the overall shapes sketched out. That's what you see happening on the further

collage of tables. On the nearer one the bearing setting is in progress. The foundation

for the kinetics starts there, with a good deal of creative and engineering thought

going into that aspect of things.

The flattened silhouette of the spinning form is drawn heavier to one side in anticipation

of the asymmetrical forming to come. This will make better visual sense later when I can

show rather than tell. But first, let's put a base to this sculpture and mount the bearing

setting.

At this point we have a definite dimension for the sculpture's footprint and

we can put design and planning energy into the concrete pedestal.