This artist creates insanely intricate artworks out of saws
LONDON -- An artist in the UK is showcasing some inventive and strangely beautiful artworks created from hand saws.
Dan Rawlings, who creates the scenes using hand cut metal, is exhibiting his work as part of a show entitled Untranslated at London's Curious Duke Gallery.
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Untranslated, as the name might suggest, focuses on words that don't have a direct English translation - words such as "Waldeinsamkeit," which means feeling connected to nature in woodland.
The words he's selected for his works are designed to emphasise “the importance of dreaming, to enjoy the simpler moments,” Rawlings says.
The images he depicts are serene, even blissful, even if they're hewn from rusty and jagged metal.
He doesn't just work with saws. Here are a few of his other pieces, carved from unusual metal objects, that are going on display.
This artwork, Gokotta, is created from a 747 plane wing.
This work, entitled Texas Tea, is carved from a petrol tank.
This piece, Komorebi, is constructed from a gas canister and fire extinguisher.
Untranslated runs until May 28.
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