Drawn Quartered & Hung

[beachcaster]

I've been mulling over the idea of cutting up a knife for a while and I've spent quite a few hours looking at ways it might work then drawing and planning the final result.

I wanted a hanging mechanism that allowed the 4 knife sections to adjust in space yet at the same time to integrate visually as part of the overall concept.

The knife is orange Corian and O1 steel....pewter and ebony decorative sandwich
with a Corian bolster. The stand base is also Corian with a perspex milled top
with stainless steel hex uprights and brass details.
I used yellow monofilament to create glowing dynamic angles to link the adjusters to the heavy slabs of the knife .
It is 8 inches high and nearly 10 inches wide and the knife is 7 inches long

Influenced by Damian Hirst's suspended sharks with a hint of Liquorice Allsorts and harking back to my own Pinto Punk it's definately an Ugly Bugr... but strangely... considering it is in 4 parts it does seem to exude an overwhelming desire to be whole again.

Hope you like it

barry

www.knifesculpture.com

[SVanderkolff]

That is really wild. I like it. An art instalation for the desk of a knife maker.
Steve