almost done

i had planned on getting this piece done and ready for photography on monday but the photographer rang me early in the week saying he couldn't do monday anymore but he could fit me in friday afternoon. i had just lost two days of work time, and so i spent all day thursday and friday working frantically.



as a result of my frantic working, i didn't take many process images, as there just wasn't enough time. thursday as i said before was the day i spent ten hours at the sandblaster.



on friday morning i started the day off by rubbing white paint into the etchings to make the image stand out more clearly. i ended up calling in some help from Borris mid day on friday. he helped me rub off the extra paint form each tile.

once the white paint was dry the layout of the tiles was done, each one numbered on the back and each tile was traced out onto the large image of a tractor print out. Borris helped me by cutting out each paper tile stencil, and then taping gaffer tape on each tile. then using the paper print out i hand cut each tile pattern out into the gaffer tape so the positive area of the image was revealed. this area was then lightly sandblasted so the paint would stick to the glass. the piece was starting to come together.

at some point in all that i knew that i would not make my 430 deadline so i rang the photographer and he said he could wait until 630, a 2 hour extension. i was relieved, i think Borris was a bit surprised we would have to keep working.

with the extension in my favour i pushed ahead and using some fancy special graffiti spray paint from a specialty shop i painted the areas that i had cut out the stencil for with matte black paint. luckily the paint dried to the touch in 5 minutes, so i gave it ten minutes just for good luck before i started to remove the tape.

thanks to Borris' help i had the last tile wrapped and packed in a box to head to the photographers at 625pm.