Copper Smithing Botanicals and Newton’s Laws - Jesse Blumenthal
In this residency students will create smithed/hammered objects to demonstrate their understanding of the basic physics of metalworking. Translations of natural forms shift perspectives on how we view the world around us and provide new angles on the materials that make up both the industrial and botanical worlds we occupy. The central project is the creation of a leaf sculpture from a copper plate cutout. The weight of the hammer, and effort/skill of the precise swing, are meant to open students to the possibilities of complex expression through basic, historic tooling while exploring standards such as Newton’s Laws.