Dangerous Object

Sculpture That's Pointy & Sharp

September 1996

Explanation

When I first started working on the Plexi-Fall fountain, I needed to learn a few new skills:

• Cutting plexiglas, which is really scoring and snapping
• Gluing plexiglas, which involves noxious chemicals
• Cursing like a sailor

In short, what I mean to say is that I was very bad at the first two, and improved rapidly at the third. Luckily, my ineptitude at the first one gave me plenty of scrap material for practicing the second. This project is the result of taking some jagged scraps of what looks like broken glass and gluing them together into an object you don't want to step on with your bare feet.

The finished object is about six inches long and almost four inches tall.

Materials

• Plexiglas
• Glue - I used the "thickened" type of acrylic glue.