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Turning steel into lace

New York-based artist Cal Lane turns old metal oil cans and drums, car parts, wheelbarrows, and other everyday objects into lacy works of art.  

Some sculptors, including Richard Serra, who has called welding “a form of stitching,” use the technique to join pieces of metal. Ms. Lane, by contrast, uses her torch to cut baroque patterns into such mundane objects as shovels, Dumpsters and old oil drums.

The work is about the contrasts between the industrial and the fanciful, the opaque and the transparent. 

(via The New York Times)

Pictured, via Benrimon Contemporary: “Fabricated House,” a plasma-cut oil can.