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chainbreakerwelding

Drew Evans-Arcenas

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creating amazing works of sculpture from reclaimed metal and sharing the journey

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Thank you to everyone who came out and visited my booth at the Iowa Pop Art Festival at Newbo in Cedar Rapids last Saturday! It was a really amazing day with gorgeous weather and over 100 other awesome local artists exhibiting their creations! I recently finished building the walls for my booth over the past couple of weeks. I shot some footage of that process that I will share soon. The walls are made from lumber that I salvaged from an old shed. The darker ones are lined with carpet and the lighter ones are lined with curtains procured from the thrift store. I'm enjoying playing around with materials to see what works best. I've found having walls of different colors to be beneficial as some of the work looks better on a lighter backdrop and some on a dark wall. This festival was also my first attempt at featuring a video display to show off more of my work and process to festival goers. The display is a computer screen that I picked up at goodwill connected to a laptop and a very heavy lead acid sump pump battery with a power converter the other side of the wall. The battery can run the display for about 20 hours. I'm looking into swapping the lead acid battery for lithium cells and modifying the display to increase the brightness. Are you an artist who does festivals? What challenges have you had to overcome with optimizing your booth setup? created by Drew Evans-Arcenas with DM Production's Epic Inspiration
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Thank you to everyone who came out and visited my booth at the Iowa Pop Art Festival at Newbo in Cedar Rapids last Saturday! It was a really amazing day with gorgeous weather and over 100 other awesome local artists exhibiting their creations!

I recently finished building the walls for my booth over the past couple of weeks. I shot some footage of that process that I will share soon. The walls are made from lumber that I salvaged from an old shed. The darker ones are lined with carpet and the lighter ones are lined with curtains procured from the thrift store. I'm enjoying playing around with materials to see what works best. I've found having walls of different colors to be beneficial as some of the work looks better on a lighter backdrop and some on a dark wall.

This festival was also my first attempt at featuring a video display to show off more of my work and process to festival goers. The display is a computer screen that I picked up at goodwill connected to a laptop and a very heavy lead acid sump pump battery with a power converter the other side of the wall. The battery can run the display for about 20 hours. I'm looking into swapping the lead acid battery for lithium cells and modifying the display to increase the brightness.

Are you an artist who does festivals? What challenges have you had to overcome with optimizing your booth setup?
Enjoy this fun mix of some of my artworks.

If you'd like to see more of my reclaimed metal artworks, browse my available artworks, or learn how you can commission your own custom piece, check out my website chainbreakerwelding.com Link in bio
Here I am learning an important lesson about kinetic sculptures. Fortunately I was alright after this, just a bump on my chin and a bruise on my pride.

If you'd like to see more of my reclaimed metal artworks, browse my available artworks, or learn how you can commission your own custom piece, check out my website chainbreakerwelding.com Link in bio
Bicycle chain lovers in a romantic embrace. The chains of the man are plated with brass and the chains of the woman are polished to a lustrous shine. This original artwork sold on the day I finished it. I may make another one like it in the near future.

If you'd like to see more of my reclaimed metal artworks, browse my available artworks, or learn how you can commission your own custom piece, check out my website chainbreakerwelding.com Link in bio
Crafting a wedding ring from a stainless steel hex nut and polishing it to a mirror shine. This was the first of several rings I've made from hardware, silverware, and other reclaimed metals. I may sell jewelry one of these days, but for now I just make these for fun.

If you'd like to see more of my reclaimed metal artworks and browse my available artworks, check out my website chainbreakerwelding.com Link in bio
Check out these trees crafted from antique retired hand saws. These are cut with a plasma cutter, then pattern ground and flame tempered to bring out the color, and finally finished with a coating of crystal clear protective lacquer I also add a mounting bracket to the backside for easy hanging and display. These original artworks are available on my website Chainbreakerwelding.com/shop
Geometric delight in this little twenty sided bicycle chain masterpiece.

If you'd like to see more of my reclaimed metal artworks or learn how you can commission your own custom piece, check out my website chainbreakerwelding.com Link in bio
Here are some of my spinning sculptures and my shiny stainless steel figure at N*Everland Barnyard in Anamosa, Iowa last year
Polishing away at this Stainless Steel Figure Sculpture! I'm getting ready to install this piece for exhibition over the summer in Jefferson, Iowa
I call this sculpture "geometree". The top is a type of polyhedron called a snub cube. I filmed this while it was on exhibit at Lowe Park in Marion, Iowa. This sculpture is now on permenant exhibition at the Ledger Building in Bentonville, Arkansas.
This awe inspiring bicycle chain galaxy is on permanent installation in the Ledger Building in Bentonville, Arkansas. Its is part of a two part installation that was inspired by the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope
Enjoy this video of the process of welding a bicycle chain artwork! I was inspired to make this one after observing Jupiter through a telescope.
Freehand sculpting the back of the head on this stainless steel figure sculpture. I used plaster casting forms to get the rest of the shape of this piece, but I did not make one of the back of the head. It was good practice in calibrating my artistic eye.
Building a custom commissioned state of Michigan artwork from welded bicycle chains and sprockets.

If you would like to have your own home state crafted from bicycle chains, I have a listing for it on my website https://chainbreakerwelding.com/shop/ols/products/custom-state-map-artwork
Check out this custom pizza oven door I made for my friends over at N*Everland barnyard

If you'd like to see more of my reclaimed metal artworks or learn how you can commission your own custom piece, check out my website chainbreakerwelding.com Link in bio
Taking this show on the road! I was only a few inches from street legal width.
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