Laser cut from 11Ga stainless steel, 9 11/16in by 10 11/16in (24.7cm x 27.3cm)
© Joan Ann Lansberry March 2009
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The seed of the inspiration came about when my boss made a rare visit to our shop and showed us results from a new toy he had, a metal cutter complete with a preprogrammed series of designs. He had a huge Harley Davidson logo in thick aluminum. This got me thinking. What if I could create a similar design that would work using positive and negative space? I started with a photo of a statue in the Cairo museum, of Horus and Set blessing Ramesses III:
 Horus and Set with Ramesses the Third seen at the Global Egyptian Museum website, housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo Granite, height 195cm, width 72cm, originally found at Medinet Habu
I could have chosen all sorts of metals, but I wanted something durable, something that I could envision existing even a millennium from now. So I chose steel. Many months later, I was watching a program on the History channel that gave the history of iron. I was surprised to learn steel is 98% iron. Iron has associations with Set, for its meteorites are called ‘the bones of Set’ and a meteor had hit near one of the regions whose people were devoted to Set even as late as Roman times. |
A more frontal view has the light source obscured by the camera, so I had Julia photograph the pendant in the second photo.
