Bamboo Cathedrale
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Cut'n Break
It's the first time I heard about Silicone being used to do stained glas artwork.
We were all skeptical in the beginning. But it worked! All four "windows" survived the summer ... and so did the tourists that passed underneath it!
Thursday, August 9, 2007
The Center-Piece
The original idea for the center-piece was to use the bottoms of wine bottles in between the bamboos (sketch). There were only 10 days left to finish this Installation and the budget was getting dry.
How is it possible to drill holes through thick glass? Will it be save (Wind!)? Will it look nice at the end?
We did tests cutting bottles... it looked too rough and the edges were razor-sharp.
So we decided to get stained - glass from a Glass-Studio "Espace-Verre" in Montreal.
Click here if you want to see some glas blowers in action. It's worth a visit!
Friday, August 3, 2007
The Two Techniques
1. To cover the larger metal structures with Bamboo-Panels the "Knotting Technique" was used. A little fruit-basket Florian saw at a friends place was the inspiration for this technique.
2. Later Boris introduced the "Bending Technique"for the smaller structures.
The horizontal Bamboo's and the top of the metal frame gave enough resistance to keep the vertical Bamboos in place without the use of knots.
2. Later Boris introduced the "Bending Technique"for the smaller structures.
The horizontal Bamboo's and the top of the metal frame gave enough resistance to keep the vertical Bamboos in place without the use of knots.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Monday, July 9, 2007
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Knots, Knots, Knots ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
1000 Bamboo
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Burlap Jute
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
The Beginning
The Concept
The preliminary pencil sketch above by Florian Fiebig was scanned, painted and then merged onto the image in Photoshop.
The challenge was to use the already existing Metal Doors and the surrounding English Garden to create a completely new design. These Metal doors where designed and built by Martin Wade for Flora International 2006. They were wrapped in Fabric like giant flower Petals. Check his site to see his version:mwla.ca(after you click enter, go to "Public","Gardens", "3").
An interesting contrast to an English Garden would be a Tropical Garden.
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