Happy Kinda Thang

"Happy Kinda Thang" was the first medium sized alumaché piece that ever I made. Geepers we've both gone through gone some changes since then.

For a few years "Happy Kinda Thang" had a supporting rectangular prism cement sheet base on its legs. Golly it took a lot of work to make it. I needed a few years to recuperate from the idea of this being part of every piece. "Happy Kinda Thang" was the big brother of smaller works previously made with wooden block rectangular prism bases. The bases gave the small light bright metal organic forms contrast to work against and suited 'em nicely. But I was struggling with plynths and the organic nature of the work being chained like Andromeda to the bl(r)ock. I imagined objects like "Happy Kinda Thang" in a garden or a beautiful bushland setting (could be seen as inappropriate by some), floating as part of the space, moving through it like robot vegan dinosaurs and because of their lightness being moved easily around in an environment by their captive audience. As my father would say, "Stephen!....You're daydreaming again!"

By that stage I had moved way way further on to works utilising a tripod structure. This was much more successful in alluding to the je ne sais quoi of a sculptural representation of a gesture. So after honing these technicalities, "Happy Kinda Thang" has been turned upside down, given a new set of legs and a new outlook on life!