I started teaching welding and metal sculpting again last week.  I’ve got a great group of beginning students, who are all eager to learn.  It’s been a while since I’ve taught, but it’s nice to see students get excited about learning skills that I now do without even thinking about it.  It reminds me of how excited I was when I took my first welding class so many years ago at SVA.  I knew after the first session that I wanted to do this the rest of my life.

Finally, after months and months and months, I was able to get around to making a removeble, decorative fireplace screen for the wonderful Chee-Zefi family.  I needed to make a screen that was also childproof, so I designed this screen to lift up and out — easy for an adult but too heavy for a child.  This fireplace was constructed out of various sizes of recycled plumber’s pipe, which I wire brushed.  I then welded the pieces of pipe into a tubing frame that has a blackened finish.