My final project is a slightly larger than life size wire sculpture of a hand with water dripping from the pointer finger in multiple locations, sitting in a 10x10x10 black laser cut plywood enclosure filled with a few centimeters of water. With a strobe light I soldered from a kit that has a potentiometer able…

After some failing and re-familiarizing myself with laser cutting, I have the enclosure for my sculpture cut and sanded, I just need to seal the edges and paint it black. The hand sculpture is being pieced together, here are some chunks.

This week my water pump and strobe light kit came in. I soldered the strobe light and it’s brighter than I thought it would be, which is good, but it is difficult to control the frequency of the flashes in small increments with the potentiometer dial. Experimenting with different methods to get the water dripping…

This week, I mainly got to mess around with the wire sculpting. I’ve tried a few different things, and I realized that with the size of the solenoid I would be using it probably isn’t feasible to have the pump system setup inside the sculpture, I will just have it added onto the side but…

I used some steel wire to make a makeshift person, and hot glued some pieces to keep him stable. I took Matt’s suggestion of having some black back panels so that the illusion shows through more clearly. Incorporating two strobe lights could be helpful, except with the specific frequency I’d need to match the light…

Amanda Smith Wiegman was born in the Netherlands in 1944, and is now known as one of the “Most Brilliant Artists of the Netherlands,” a title awarded to him in 2009. He is considered an “art omnivore” due to the sheer amount of different mediums he has utilized in his work. He began working with…