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Dog sculpture (Porta the Portuguese Water Dog) |
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Rusted steel, 29 by 8 by height 19 in or 73 by 20 by height 48 cm.
The dog is not shaped in the third dimension, but there's some depth since the dog is made
from a 1 inch or 2.6 cm thick steel plate. This flatness is carried over in the dog's ball,
which is a disc not a sphere (in a little visual joke).
Then the real dog Porta checks out the new piece.
(photographs by ET and Andrei Severny)
-- Edward Tufte
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Response to Dog sculpture
Here's a wood enlargement of the small steel Porta piece. We're testing how the piece
scales up and the also the virtues of the base plate. The first image shows the
real dog Porta sitting on the base of the wood enlargement.
We'll use 3 inch thick steel when we cut the steel version since the
depth of the edgeline is important (as the original small Porta piece demonstrates).
Photographs by Cynthia Bill and Andrei Severny.
-- Edward Tufte
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Halloween Porta
A temporary wooden mask for Porta:
-- Edward Tufte
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Dog sculpture enlarged
Here is the process for enlarging the steel dog. Photographs by Andrei Severny and ET on December 20, 2008.
(The metal washers placed on the paper hold the template down flat on the scanner table.)
-- Edward Tufte
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Plywood Porta mock-up in the snow
Photograph by Andrei Severny
-- Edward Tufte
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