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Critical theorists, curators, and museum directors may have a limited knowledge of sculpture technology compared to that of sculpture historians or sculptors themselves; however, the imprecise use of the term “welding” is more than a minor catachresis. Cal Lane’s sculpture production is the very opposite of welding: a cutting process rather than a joining process. To clarify, welding is the joining of two parent metals by melting them both while adding a similar intermediate metal, a process that produces a homogeneous piece of metal. Lane pierces thick steel with an oxyacetylene cutting torch and cuts thin steel with a plasma cutter, and although there may be an impressive display of sparks, this is not welding and Cal Lane’s sculpture practice is not a feminist parody of the film Flashdance
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http://grunt.ca/wordpress/wp-content...ay-forweb1.pdf
I must confess I skimmed a bit.