Three Sisters by Richard Arfsten
Three Sisters is a fabricated stainless steel sculpture. The fabricator used my maquette (a small model of the piece that is used to take measurements from) to make this larger model. However, since the engineering to do this takes a tremendous amount of time, it is not practical to enlarge to small sizes like this.
The patterns have to be perfect so the metal meets at the corners so it can be welded. These forms all have curves that have a changing radius like a French curve. Once you have the metal cut out it is very hard to bend to fit the curve. It is actually easier to make a 10 ft. sculpture than this 3 ft. sculpture.
Stainless steel is extremely hard to photograph. The high lights blow out and you are supposed to use a white tent and shoot through a hole in the wall and have special lights. This was the best I could do at the time. It is about 28" tall x 26" wide x15' deep.
The maquette is available if you want to enlarge this design to a bigger scale.
The patterns have to be perfect so the metal meets at the corners so it can be welded. These forms all have curves that have a changing radius like a French curve. Once you have the metal cut out it is very hard to bend to fit the curve. It is actually easier to make a 10 ft. sculpture than this 3 ft. sculpture.
Stainless steel is extremely hard to photograph. The high lights blow out and you are supposed to use a white tent and shoot through a hole in the wall and have special lights. This was the best I could do at the time. It is about 28" tall x 26" wide x15' deep.
The maquette is available if you want to enlarge this design to a bigger scale.