REPOSITIONABLE AND REPEATABLE LIMB STRUCTURES ENABLING POSED ARRANGEMENT OF MULTIPLE TORTOISES
MATERIAL CONSTRUCTION & SURFACE FINISH
Planished raw copper sheeting
TINNING OF COPPER
ORIGINAL / ACTUAL GIANT TORTOISE SCALE
A full size adult giant galapagos tortoise can be in excess of 90cm in thickness and 1.5m in length.
SIMPLIFIED / TRADITIONAL FORM
Feng Shui Longevity / Bagua Tortoise
SHEET METAL PROCESSES
Bead Rolled / Hand Hammered / English Wheel sheet metal
Timber and/or Bolted / Welded Metalwork Chassis
REPOUSSÉ
Hammering and single-point forming copper from both sides into a former
DIMPLE DIE / PUNCH
ARRANGEMENT
Giant Tortoises come in a wide selection of sizes
Their favoured habitat is around the edges of shallow pools which they dig for themselves.
POSITIONING
Tortoise movements / natural poses
EXISTING COMMERCIAL SCULPTURES FEATURING GALAPAGOS GIANT TORTOISES
Statue outside the Littlehaven Hotel, South Shields, Northeast England
Bronze By Gill Parker
19th Century Japanese Bronze Tortoises
Meiji Bronze Japanese Antique
Netsuke Ornament
