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Wrought Iron, Fine Art Jewelry, Contemporary Sculpture, Art, Classes

mike@medelmanart.com

Workshops are in conjunction with Spruce Forest Artisan Village.

 
 
 


Mike Edelman's unique metalwork is made using innovative forging techniques as well as traditional methods of metal fabrication. The finished composition becomes a hand made functional sculpture that is a seamless blend of fine art and function.



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Pornography: A book of Work no one would look at.

Steel, Brass and Copper

 

This book was created as a response to some of my favorite pieces never getting a kind look. The best response any of these pieces ever got in their former lives was a dirty look. “You expect someone to wear THAT?” is what the look screamed. I still loved them, but the world just was not going to embrace them. Not in that form. Not in public.


I decided to save them from a dusty box by combining them with each other into new compositions. Each page is 1-3 pieces of jewelry combined. I had major ambitions when I first started. A book. A novel. Made from jewelry. After the million hours creating the 3 pages, plus the hinges and cover, I decided 3 pages made from metal weighs more than the average hardcover book, I was going to go by weight, not pages.


I struggled with the title. These works were something no one would admit to liking. I liked them. I knew they were beautiful, but they needed to be in a context where the viewer could be alone with them, to appreciate their forms in their own private world. I still don't know exactly why, but “Pornography” struck me as the right title after that string of thoughts. So, I trusted my intuition and ran with it.

 






 




Mike Edelman is the resident Blacksmith at Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, MD. He has over 17 years experience working with metals, has won numerous awards and exhibited work across the country. For more info, please visit: www.medelmanart.com.