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DIRECTORY Lee Badger
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As an artist-blacksmith I have a close working relationship with fire and I wanted to represent fire and flames in my own medium. I wanted to interpret flame and hot-worked steel and show that metal can be both solid and airy. I also wanted to show my own creative humor in a straightforward way. I used high-tech fires from an electronic torch and a gas jet furnace to cut and bend a common I-beam into an uplifting form that might suggest an opening zipper. Then I added hand forged steel flames, finishing them with an oxide patina because rust is the way steel slowly burns in air. Airy, dancing metal flames are unzipped from a strong and heavy piece of structural steel. - Acquired in 2011 by University of Indianapolis for permanent installation in "Campus Sculpture Walk."
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