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art, arte, norge, norway, sculpture, Skulptur, stave church, stavkyrkje, urnes, wire
The breath-taking stylised carving on Norway’s Urnes stavkyrkje has been wandering in and out of my thoughts for many years. When I finally visited them I realised photographs had never really shown how startling and beautiful they are. I posted some of my thoughts previously on Urnes stavkyrkje and I ended that post wondering what I would turn this experience into. A little bit of creativity (and a lot of plagiarism haha) produced my first piece. 
I traced the edges of the design from photographs I took of the original carvings. I then shaped and soldered galvanised wire. This took some time to do! I finished off with a black patina.
The above picture shows the finished work against a white door. I am not really sure it is finished, I think there is more to do. But until I think of some way of adding more, or displaying, I will leave alone. Quite a satisfying project :o)
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very well done
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Wonderfully made! It’s not ‘plagiarism’, that’s called ‘inspiration’! 🙂
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Awesome! That would look great as is in a garden or as a stained glass panel in a side light window (the type by front doors, long and skinny)
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I originally wanted to create something in glass (or involving glass). Good idea mounting it against a glass side panel. Thanks!
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Quite welcome 🙂
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Thank you – I feel better about it already 🙂
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Wow, this is soooo beautiful, both the original and your work! The more I look, the more I see in the image, and I can understand this was something that stayed in your mind for long.
How did you get that black patina?
I use to think of myself as someone with a lot of patience, but I think this is beyond my horizon… Congrats for finishing such delicate work, your piece does the original full justice!
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The original is so unique and beautiful I would recommend anyone to go see them if they can. It looks like there were more pieces but these are the only ones to survive so many years.
The black patina I bought for creating a patina on copper foil I used for stained glass work but it works on some other metals as well. I guess it must be possible to make your own – I seem to remember something about acetic acid – I must look it up.
Thank you for your kind comments but the delicacy does not really compare with your jewellery pieces. For anyone else reading this, have a look at https://galeriaredelius.wordpress.com/category/jewellery-2/
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Beautiful. Not easy to twist wires. You must have a lot of patience.
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Now THAT is really something…
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beautiful art – I’m sure it took much labor and time and persistence to accomplish this; but the results are just lovely ! thats a whole lot more patience and wrist strength than what I’ve got 🙂
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This is absoloutely beautiful. What a great idea. The clean cut lines are an ease for the eye and I think the piece is perfect also at this stage. Thank you for doing this, It made me rediscover my love for this church.
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Thank you! There is so much more I want to do with these wonderful designs. There are fragments in other places but nothing as good as Urnes. It is a shame we will never know who created these carvings and designs but I am glad they still exist.
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I more than like I have to say it is fantastic.
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Thank you Jack!
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This is a wonderful and delicate piece of art, congrats! We all draw inspiration from something that already exists and as long as it is not “exactly” the very same artwork, I wouldn’t be bothered. 🙂
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Very difficult to create something truly original. Yeah, you are right – we all draw inspiration from others.
Thank you for your kind comments 🙂
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Beautiful.
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WOW – I love this so much I am almost jumping up & down.
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You are really too kind for a bit of bent wire 🙂
Your blog https://mercedesmosaics.wordpress.com/ has reminded me I should have a go at mosaics some time soon. Never tried them out.
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Beautiful!
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great art piece, perfect design of lines carefully produced very creative
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The lines and design of the original carvings are almost out of this world. The tragedy is there only a few pieces from the original church which were then incorporated into the new church. The fortune for us is that some of the pieces are still with us. How did wooden carvings survive so long! Maybe 900 years! I often wonder what the original church must have looked like.
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