Aluminium-Panel Sculptures / Suppon-pon and O-Shiri
Even though many people still looking for the Dragon image, I rather like to put much more
warm-blooded human-like figure of which I just found an old photo of them when they were made.
( In fact, I’m getting bored with the Dragon images which has been requested by the readers. 😀 )
If you object its part of anatomies = it’s a sign of your mind has been stacked with it = it’s all
in your mind = relax, take easy and have a fun-loving mind, instead. After all, it’s just a dented
aluminium panel, isn’t it ? —– Nothing more than that, and harmless. Ha ha ha. 😀
In fact, Full-frontal figure named [Suppon-pon] (after Japanese slang) above was a challenge, how
simple drink can sculpture can be made realistic figure, and the right, named [O-shiri] was made as
a kinetic sculpture which wobbles its bottom with motorized mechanism, though within a day, its metal
cracked and broken = it needs to be made by the good spring steel with a proper heat process.
Because, the matter in the Zen is, a Zen practice on practice ! —– Let’s Just Do It !
How Zen it is, you will see. (and see the fun)
I’ve been telling the people, who asked me how those aluminium figures were made = I made them
by just pressing a thin metal, like Shiatsu. ( but, quite laborious endless pressing =
hence, it was a Zen practice ! ) as you can see the photos above, they were just a drink can.
Simply, if a thin metal was pressed, metal will be bent = to cut and bend the metal piece to a shape
wanted is, what all about the aluminium panel sculpture.
If you like to make it as a nude figure, make its shape as a nude figure, as simple as that.
So, when you got flat metal out of drink can, place it on a half soft surface and press it with something
round tipped stick or your finger = you can have the effect. ( = here, you will see the result of
pressure = how unmistakably correct, the Buddhism teachings are. 😀 😀 )
If the base was too soft, metal may not be bent but just sink all together. You need to try and find the
best suited material = I found, a cork place-mat has right softness. (and a Telephone book as well !)
The size of a round tipped stick to push the metal panel may need to have several different sizes
—– here the photo of the use of the tool I’ve improvised and made for this purpose.
Observe and use your common-sense and try and try again. The solution can only be found by doing.
Thinking makes no result, but only the action does. And only the result counts.
If the resulting shape was not what you wanted = make it from the scratch again (and again).
If you run-out of a can, you don’t need to drink another beer = look around the street, you will find
another can (can be tons of them. 😀 )
(Obviously, this practice (Art ?) cost nothing = Zen and Spirituality is absolutely incompatible with money)
The more you try, the result you get will be the better. Don’t be impatient. And keep doing.
Just sweep the garden, Churi-pantak (Shuri-bantoku) needed 10 years of practice to get it perfect.
In fact, behind of my pieces (as the best so far, in the photo) I’ve made many failures which I’m not
showing to you. 😀 —– It was just a process to get it right = might be called as a Pathway.
To get the best out of one’s life is what the Buddhism was intended for,
not for sitting idol and talking empty mambo-jumbo.
The tools had its own history of the evolution = from a round bottom of Fizzy drink CO2 Gas bomb
to a Bearing’s ball mounted shaft (for smoother fine movement). And, the roller disks which would
make furrow or smooth curved line. Utilize anything with the creative approach.
The better designed tool would give easier work and the better result.
—– Of cause, I know you would say “What all those fuss for ?”— nothing. What’s wrong ?
Do you think, Do I needed to have a purpose, such as to become famous and rich with those works ?
Oh, c’mon. Don’t be greedy. It’s just a beer can. = Utterly useless things. ( Priceless ? 😀 )
I wouldn’t ask another technician to make Diamond studded Skull for greedy money-making scheme =
In here, to make it or its effort itself was the purpose. Therefore, I’m making
everything myself, for myself. = (Selfish ? —– I don’t think so. I’m just dealing with this piece, which
is nothing to do with anybody else. I was just seeing this piece of metal getting its own shape. = work for
something purposeless for the sake of its own sake, is nothing but the selfless act = Act for act.
So, this is my Zen. ( If you couldn’t understand why this is the Zen, think why
Master Boddhi Dharma opened Shaolin-Temple using martial art as a teaching tool,
and why the Tea-making is a Zen. —– Convinced ? )
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Thank you.
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nicely done!
Thank you very much.
I feel great honor to receive a praise from the person who got
the eyes to distinguish the art.
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Yoshizen…
great and enjoyable work (as usual). What does intrigue me is how many times you sliced open your fingers on the sharp metal – I used to work in a metal pressing shop, and know that metal can be extremely sharp. Would thick gloves get in the way of the workmanship? I imagine so.
Happy Chinese new year, I think we shall be riding the tail of a wet dragon over the coming days!
Hi Paul
The most intrigued you would be, I don’t get injured.
I don’t know whether it’s the same reason I don’t get ill. (My parent told me that since I was born to
be protected, they didn’t worried at all even when I was keenly climbing the mountain —– they were
more worried as I came back from the mountain so smelly and it must be the public concern 😀 )
Since the precaution of sharp-edge has been programmed into my subconscious, I don’t touch the
sharp-edge (in that direction) = this is what mindfulness mean.
Life offers so much hidden in their sleeve, it’s mean we can and have to learn more and grow.
Happy Chinese New Year.
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Happy Chinese New Year Yoshizen! 🙂
Thank you Caren. Happy Chinese New Year to you too.
—– wait a moment, I thought you were going to show
blue Dragon on the Chinese ceramics ? 🙂
A wonderful and great teaching Yoshizen. Thank you!
Thank you Diane.
So, you can try “Drink can Zen” some time 🙂
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Such a fascinating–and sometimes humorous 😉 post–, Yoshizen! The figures are beautiful! I enjoyed reading about the process.
Thank you very much Lemony !
I know your very intense eyes, so the figures I’ve been making may looks pretty jokey to you.
(Because they are jokey 😀 )
And because of my approach to the Zen is, it is to live today in full.
To live in full, it’s better to have a smile than grumpy face.
So, I should make the pieces to make the people smile. 🙂
Yoshizen, actually they don’t look jokey to me, in the unserious way you might mean. They are quite striking and do still bring a smile to people’s faces. 🙂
Oh no, Lemony I was very serious. 🙂
To make looks rather realistic and solid figure, but, out of a can I’ve picked up on the street, was a joke
or irony towards the idea of the traditional art and its value.
To make the figure was, a very serious toil of over one week = hence mindfulness of the Zen 😀
I wanted to show this contradiction. 😀
Great idea, great execution.
Thank you very much Elena.
The idea was, to do something in deadly cheap cost 😀
For the execution, — it was just a matter to spend the time, of which I got plenty now 😀
Wow, very nice! Love the sculptures and your text! Such a lot of interesting information to take in. Regards,Steve
Thank you Steve. I’m grad to hear the information here was useful.
I found, you got quite a photographs too with quite an experimental approach.
So, how about my experimental approach —- > Please have a look on my post
—- > google [ yoshizen zappa ] [ yoshizen tiny life ]
of which showed my hand made approach. 😀
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