by Tom McClelland on January 3, 2012
Wishing all of us the happiest of New Years with new metal to pour and weld and shape into new concepts. I just received some rough castings from Leif Dillow, owner of Old School Bronze, and these, along with some stainless steel forms I’ve been welding up, will be combined into new work! I’m considering, among other ideas,a variation on the “House of Cards” sculpture I created about two years ago. I was never very happy with that sculpture, so I cut it apart and had Leif melt the figure down to recycle it into these new castings. New life for old stuff!
by Tom McClelland on December 14, 2011
plaster study for upcoming sculpture
I just returned home from a trip to the San Diego area, and have an experience that has stuck with me: I was talking with the my niece at the table at breakfast about how “non-linear” my approach to life has been, when the waiter interrupted me to anonunce that logic and the mathematics involved in that discipline was paramount, and what did I know, after all, about philosophy? (He, is a philosophy major in college, and thus an expert, or so he said.) Having been a teacher for many years, I’m used to interruptions of all sorts, so waived it all aside, but this young man would do well to have listened to the context in which I presented logic as I was trying to explain my intuitive repsonses to linearity in life’s unfolding puzzle.
Wishing all of us the happiest of New Years with new metal to pour and weld and shape into new concepts. I just received some rough castings from Leif Dillow, owner of Old School Bronze, and these, along with some stainless steel forms I’ve been welding up, will be combined into new work! I’m considering, among other ideas,a variation on the “House of Cards” sculpture I created about two years ago. I was never very happy with that sculpture, so I cut it apart and had Leif melt the figure down to recycle it into these new castings. New life for old stuff! 
