Grafplank 1
Also today I started on a new project, called "grafplank" or "tombshelf" in english. I have this tombstone which I recovered from a container 20 years ago in The Hague. Some Graves were cleared and the stones with all the stone was just discarded. Me and some fellow sculptors were low on money so it sometimes happened we got into these containers to salvage whatever useable piece of stone we could get. This stone i have been carrying around now just a bit too much, time has come to do something with it. So a new ..... u already might have guessed it.
Also bougth some blades for the decoupeer-saw, hoping that it would work on stone ..... It doesn't, so i'm back in the sawing by hand mode. On the upper part you can see a line, curved. Have to saw it, will take approximately 5 to 6 hours for each support .....
posted by bo @ 3:46 PM
3 Comments:
Ha Bo - na al dat aandringen vanochtend van jou, heb ik net ff zitten neuzen op je blog. Leuke dingen --> zeker de tafel is top! Benieuwd hoe je die poten hebt gemaakt. En wat ga je eigenlijk van die grafsteen maken? Suc6 verder! Grtn, Arjen
Unbelievable they just throw that away. That is pretty good material I think.
Then on the other hand .... a second hand tombstone, who wants that anyway ? Might be an awesome floor for a bathroom, all old tombstones, as they have in some old churches. But yes, Material is material, and I just hate to throw perfectly good material away. If we keep on doing that (and it's good for economy to throw as much away as we can and keep on buying new stuff, finish resources as fast as we can) there won't be much left in another milennia or 5.
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