So...we have bike wheels. Plenty of them. Sooooo many of them I couldn't possibly have lugged them on the bus like I was going to try and do... (thankfully I have a wonderfully supportive and enthusiastic boyfriend... with time to help me, a car... and that ever so useful thing called a license.) This semester is starting to have a theme of "if only you had a drivers license" what with the car available to me in San Diego and now in the acquisition of many metals)
Since the acquisition Wednesday, I cut through a few of them to see how I might be able to have one tire rim lead into another one, like an ever looping roller coaster. Cutting these rims is quite difficult in itself, not to mention opening the cut rim up, and not actually all too valuable for my purposes but I thought I would make certain.
I started thinking last night about how to put the whole upper rim structure together to determine its centre of gravity. I hung it up as one option-- and even considered Rubins technique of laying it on the ground and then weaving through the whole structure of wheels and then pulling them taught once a long weave is complete. In truth, I disliked this possibility because I wish to keep all the tires facing the same direction, and tying it taught would result in a hodgepodge of angles. I think the magic of the recycled rim is enough for the Rubins effect-- and now I can be more architectural in how I put this "sculpture" together in an architecturally meaningful way. I am still thrilled with my last sketch-- especially if the rims on the ends can just kind of fade off as they start to.
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