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Sculpture System 5 , from design and fabrication at Fab Lab Iceland through the night installation on the Eldfell lava field, summer and winter on Heimaey, and the Newcastle Maker Faire build.

Sculpture System 5 snow-packed on the Eldfell lava field, the outer islands of Vestmannaeyjar behind, December 2009
Sculpture System 5 on the lava field with a sea arch and the North Atlantic beyond
Edmund Harriss beside Sculpture System 5 on the Eldfell lava field, Heimaey
Sculpture System 5 beginning to rise from the floor at the Newcastle Maker Faire, the second build
Design session at Fab Lab Iceland, Polydron pieces used to explore possible forms before the CNC cut, April 2009
All twenty pieces laid out on the CNC bed after routing, the full vocabulary of the system in one shot, Fab Lab Iceland
CNC router cutting the curved body of a piece from plywood, Fab Lab Iceland, April 2009
Edmund Harriss holding a freshly cut piece in front of the Fab Lab Iceland sign, April 2009
Painting and priming a piece at close range, the connector discs visible in the hinge recesses, Heimaey
Three people finishing the pieces in the prep room before heading to the lava field, Heimaey, April 2009
Two figures scouting the Eldfell lava field, the site where Sculpture System 5 will be installed, April 2009
First pieces laid out on the black lava field, assembly beginning, Eldfell, Heimaey, April 2009
Assembling pieces on the lava field, kneeling with drill and toolbox, the black lava stretching behind
Close-up: a connector disc held in position on the lava, the metal rod threaded through both pieces, the hinge mechanism
Two pieces being linked on the lava field, the tab-and-disc joint that allows each piece to pivot on its neighbour
Sculpture System 5 rising from the lava field at dusk, the white form beginning to take shape in the dark, April 2009
The sculpture at an intermediate stage, an open deltahedron glowing against the Eldfell lava field at night
Sculpture System 5 complete on the Eldfell lava field at night, the white form luminous against total darkness, April 2009
The completed sculpture tiny against the vast slope of the Eldfell lava field at night, Heimaey, April 2009
Sculpture System 5 with the dramatic coastal cliffs of Vestmannaeyjar behind
Sculpture System 5 on Heimaey, looking toward the snow-capped Icelandic mainland across the sea
Sculpture System 5 resting low on the lava, the interlocking hinge geometry visible
Sculpture System 5 at sunset on Heimaey with the Eyjafjallajökull eruption cloud rising pink against the evening sky, May 2010
Aerial view of a volcanic eruption in Iceland, the geological drama that frames the sculpture on Heimaey
Sculpture System 5 in the Heimaey winter landscape, small against the vast snow and sea, December 2009
Sculpture System 5 on Heimaey in winter, white sculpture, white snow, black lava, grey sea, December 2009
Painting the pieces in the garage before transport to Newcastle, white primer over CNC-milled plywood
Two finished interlocking pieces on the garage floor, the curved tab-and-slot hinge geometry
Connector discs drying on the garage floor, the circular hinges that allow each piece to pivot
Close-up: inserting the hinge bolt that connects two pieces at the Newcastle Maker Faire build, March 2010
People assembling Sculpture System 5 live at the Newcastle Maker Faire, March 2010
Sculpture System 5 fully assembled at the Newcastle Maker Faire, before shipping to the JamJar collective in Leeds
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