The Metal Wind Turbine: Catch Up

Here is a piece that I began in the spring. My intentions were to blend my major, politics, with my visual art minor. This wind turbine is a statement on the current state of America. That through all of the financial troubles, disasters (the oil spill at the time), and wars, we as a nation must sustain. That we will come out the other end of these hard times in one piece as long as we stay at a constant forward-moving direction. I came upon the idea to represent this statement with a turbine after a dabble in some sustainability classes. The wind turbine is in constant motion, is powerful, and sustainable. The following sketch is not as the turbine will end up looking. The sketch portrays the turbine simply leaning over; this was a back up plan if the correct support pole could not be found. The original idea was for the pipe to come straight up and then bend; giving the dome and blades the same angle, but in my opinion, a more visually interesting method of doing so. This piece will be made out of sheet metal and copper. 

At the end of the semester I had completed the dome, the three wings, and the star. They were all separate and the way they were to be connected was not figured out at that point.