Exploring with your pen, playing with your art form and spending time nurturing your creativity  can definitely lead to some unexpectedly wonderful places!

In a recent TanglePod episode we were talking about one of our favorite go to tangles, Printemps- which is French for spring, and a little play on words because the tangle looks like a spiral or a mechanical spring.

Our discussion reminded me of a little tile that I created not too long ago- using Printemps as a warm up. Very quickly I started to play with the tangle, adding weight in uneven ways and making each shape thick and thin and giving each a personality of its own.

One shape turned into many and soon my tile was complete- taking on a very distinctive look which I loved because it was unexpected and not at all like my normal style.

Around the same time, in the fabrication shop we started planning a new desk for my workspace. Because this tile had a rectangular shape to it, I explored how to use it as my table top.

The tile is made up of individual shapes so the table required a little bit of additional design work to ensure that all of the pieces were connected.  We didn’t want to overdo it though, so decided to sandwich the top between pieces of glass or acrylic to allow for some of the shapes to float with support and keep all the personality of the original artwork.

After the test fit and assembly – I loved how the natural steel and the design brought together two distinct pieces of my world – and went with a matte finish on the natural steel rather than finishing it in a color.

A few months ago, I would not have guessed these two distinct areas of my world would find a way to work so beautifully together!

Kellie

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