Ain’t it always da truth. To build something, you have to make something first. I needed a way to spread the steel apart in a controlled manner to weld up the sculpture. Something that would spread the rebar circle in small increments and keep it apart without having to hold it by hand. So, I went to my trusted source YouTube and input “spreader”. Well, I got a lot of manure spreaders, but I got this idea too. It was from something completely unrelated, but was “mucho inspirational”. Now I need a clamp that works like the spreader only in reverse. Maybe I’ll look in YouTube and find a manure picker upper. Oh, well. Onward and well, onward.
This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.