Steel Fabrication: Keystone

Process Work:
Preliminary Sketches

                                                            © William Seal

key·stone  (kstn)

n.

1. Architecture The central wedge-shaped stone of an arch that locks its parts together. Also calledheadstone.

2. The central supporting element of a whole.

Artist Statement:

       The idea behind this project came from experimentation of natural vs. man-made form (yin and yang). As i sketched I found myself drawn to the form of arches. Arches in their own respect have paved the way for modern architecture and inovation. Man has a way of imitating and pulling inspiration from natural form. For example, the arch is the central structure the human skeleton (i.e. spine, rib cage, etc.). In order to tie this idea into the sculptural form I replicated a ribcage referenced from Stephen Peck's Atlas of the Human Anatomy for the Artist. The combination of natural (ribcage) and man-made (moorish arch) was intended to create a form reminiscent of the relationship between the two. "The Keystone."

-William Seal