A few shots from the last post I really liked.

There is some sort of invader attitude in this shot.

There's no clear identification of the subject in this shot, just a sculptural shape or form and the repetitive pattern of chicken wire. The mixture of a black and white setting on my camera and the clear sky in the background gave this an interesting quality.

This one is fairly close to showing what the doors looked like from the beginning.

I love the ambiguity of size in this photo. I can picture it bigger than the building and being able to walk under it.

When you go for a web designer check the references carefully.

I looked into advertising my blog on the web and this is what I got.  Where he's going with it I don't know, but I'll roll with it. A quick coffee before we start.

No designer does all the work on their own.

Off to a good start.

What?

Sit down/go slow protest.

Back in the game.

I'm sure this was only for show.

You're writing on the other side buddy.

More exposure here he said. Not exactly, if the ad stays the same size.

Some sort of show of control going on here.

The 'do not mess with me for I am Chickenwiredoorspider''  pose.

After making the smaller spider I went to work on this 30 foot tall spider. Hard to imagine I pulled that off in a day.

Can I go home now?

Giving some colour to the city walls.

Character from sketchbook. I deemed this one to be a painter, and so he was., with some drawing of the walls and character and using photoshop to put them both together.

This beautiful vista was my target.

Chickenwiredoorspider!

My brain says this is a spider face. I didn't argue.

The sketch in my book from before and the scavenged and reimagined  umbrella bits and spare chicken wire from the gates.

The beginning of this chicken wire fiesta.

I managed to give the spider  form a nice curve.  The twisting of the ends of sharp metal was interesting. Gloves you say?  I feel you lose some of the mobility and control when working with wire, that's just me personally. 

As close to a spiders' head that a picture of a door will allow.

The legs have a slightly twitchy yet fluid motion to them.  

Spider needs a web! More chicken wire. 

Again, creepy.

I find this pretty creepy without adding the 'door' head on to the body and I wasn't the only one.

These two black eyes, while temporary, are quite effective.

I'll admit it was an abstract attempt at a web at best.

Ready for action.

Spinning webs in no time.

Gates in the latter stages of their lives.

So, to freshen up my project a little I went for a walk around the city to see what would take my eye and I found this lovely big old abandoned house. The colour of it piqued my curiosity first and then when I crossed over to the other side of the road I noticed the pretty large broken down gates looking as though they were in some kind of extreme torment or that they were in the throws of dementia or lunacy. Who knows? Whatever the matter they were very interesting looking to me and when I got back to looking through the photos at home, I had the urge to explore these two characters.  

Like some sort of conjoined roadside freakshow. 

-Where does it hurt chief?
-INSIDE!?
-Ya, not much we can do for you I'm afraid, just stay still and I'll paint ya! 

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.  Is he if he's nuts?

I was making this piece as a full size door covering for our studio.  Painting and detail to be done later.
There are several differences in the depth of the layers in this piece, from six down to one. The cutting on this was pretty repetitive.

Here they in an unfinished state where the detail on the eyes is to be finished and the chicken wire is to be added.

So, I've been under the influence of cardboard recently.

On a break I find this redundant umbrella in the bin all broken and at the end of its' purposed road, and I started to take it out for the material initially but took the metal bits back with me to experiment with.

At this point the chickenwire grill on the gate is done, and this medium is about to take over, with all its' sharp pointy stabby loveliness.