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28-FEB-2008	Kelly Bellis

Glass FIT - No. 1

Ellsworth

Here's a link to a few photos of my first FIT (Five Intersecting Tetrahedra) made out of glass - be sure to maximize your web browser to see the full size images. This exercise was primarily an experiment before attempting my next one out of the more expensive colored glass. To Tom H. (for the help with the strut ratio 1:0.0770723), and to Travis O. and Jerry C. (for help with the diamond grinding disks) - thanks for your kind assistance along the way.

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Guest		04-Mar-2008 21:02
Wow, impressive sculpture and elegant image. -Michael

Canon DSLR Challenge		01-Mar-2008 20:51
Beautiful sculpture. It reminds me of M.C. Escher's print called "Stars." Here is a picture I googled:My father bought one of this woodcut when Escher was still alive and it's hanging in our game room. I love it and your sculpture as well. Ann

Canon DSLR Challenge		01-Mar-2008 15:50
Thanks for commenting Kiki, Lydia, Penny and Victor - and yes, Lydia, it has taken much of my time overcoming many technical issues during the past six weeks, but now I think I'm ready to do my second one in colored glass. Penny, sorry, I forgot to include the state - it's Ellsworth, Maine - nothing related to the artist Ellsworth Kelly ;) Nice one Victor! Pretty tough question you posed regarding the interior space (rhombic dodecahedron) of what you scanned in Pencil Sculpture -http://www.pbase.com/cslr_challenge/image/26998053 (I've got the same scanner too ;) - Even after having the answer, it's tough for me to visualize the interior of the pencils sculpture as defining a rhombic dodecahedron - at least from the perspective of the scanner. I'd love to have seen your sculpture from other angles. Incidentally and in case anybody didn't notice, if you draw imaginary lines that connect the outside corners to their nearest neighboring corners of the FIT, those lines form a dodecahedron, and more to the heart of it, it's the interior diagonals of the dodecahedron that form the five tetrahedra. Glad to see everybody here still making and sharing lovely images and I hope to get back in the swing of things with all of you wonderful artists hopefully later after I've completed my second glass FIT. Have fun. - Kelly

Canon DSLR Challenge		01-Mar-2008 14:53
That's certainly much more ambitious than my pencil sculpture in challenge 11. Very nicely done. -- Victor

Canon DSLR Challenge		01-Mar-2008 06:15
this is quite spectacular - is "Ellsworth" a take on Ellsworth Kelly somehow? Penny Street

ctfchallenge		01-Mar-2008 01:47
So THAT's what you've been doing instead of playing with us. smile It's a fascinating work of art, Kelly. ~Lydia

Canon DSLR Challenge		01-Mar-2008 01:38
OMG.. you're doing it! Beautiful. I'm impressed to pieces lol -k2