These sculptures are a part of a series by artist Christopher Wool, a painter and sculptor working out of New York and Texas. In the selected pieces below, each sculpture has origins as a discarded remnant of found rancher wire coils which are then manipulated and replicated as large sculptures.
Each piece starts with scanning the manipulated found wire and then creating a digital model. CRAFT interfaces with this model and begins the process of analysis and input. The resulting full-scale model uses combinations of varying materials and connections testing the structural performance of each piece within acceptable limits of stress, displacement, and frequency.
For the wire to function as a structure, the properties must be analytically controlled, and the analysis translated for fabrication through a series of steps involving complex modeling, sophisticated digital manual labor, and computational power. Components of the sculpture are printed, cast, and finally assembled into their complete form. The resulting sculpture showcases varying material types including portions of unfinished welding. CRAFT and Christopher Wool collaboratively aimed to preserve the artist's history and narrative, while jointly ensuring that the structural story also be told.
PROJECT TEAM
Artist: Christopher Wool, Digital Designer: Mike Koller, Fabricator: Workshop Art Fabrication
