Work in Progress on New public art installation in Austin

This is my first blog post since the early 2000s. Lets make supporting each other and sharing on decentralized platforms popular again. We don't need to continue to rely on companies that constantly try to monetize every aspect of our lives. I'm giving it a shot, anyway.
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The last several months to a year a lot of my creative work has been under wraps. I have spent a majority of my time working on a series of ferro-cement sculptures, which perhaps doesn't provide for the most glamorous visual content, so I have also been falling out of habit of posting as much on social media.​

I purchased an outdoor popup carport tent (20'x12') for a couple hundred dollars that I put up in my backyard so that I would have somewhere to weld and create these sculptures. Now that its 100 degrees out I have moved my process into the garage, thankfully. This tent was really a life saver though for most of my project. A majority of my sculptures were built in this space. Ill be taking it down once this project is over. ​

​I've been creating a series of sculptures for a new permanent public art installation in a new park in Austin. I am finally getting to the tail end of this project and am very much looking forward to sharing what I've been working on and whats turned me into a hermit both online and otherwise. 

Here are some various pics of several of the sculptures in process along the way. ​

This project took way longer than expected and took way more out of me. I will definitely be thinking long and hard before taking on another project like this one again in the future. Hundreds of hours of welding, wrapping armatures in a metal skin, mixing a custom cement mix and applying cement definitely changed me as an artist. I look forward to returning to my more free form practice and see how my practice changes because of this project. ​

I will continue documenting this project and sharing here. My anticipated installation is in a couple of weeks. I can't wait to share how this project comes together after installation. If you read this far and care about keeping up with my blog updates, you can click on the rss feed to the right and receive updates.