Illinois Valley Children’s Library

This reading tree sculpture collaboration between Lucas Brinkerhoff and I lives in the Illinois Valley children’s library.

These steel pieces from the reading tree were a whole new world of creating designs to then cut them out with a plasma cutter and grinder. The final step was banging away at them with hammers in a vice to bring out their curvature. I missed paintbrushes for just a minute.

Hand plasma cut and CNC plasma cut Steel and Copper
with Fir and Plywood

2017