![]() A lot of people think of metal as quite rigid, but it really is very much like pizza dough. Hand-shaped metal sculpture elements, Cobalt Designworks, Vancouver, Washingtonįrei: A lot of the work requires hand forming, hand shaping a new area for me, but it’s been really enjoyable and learning how to shape metal and get the shapes we want to. I mean, the stories are fun but just the pictures. I might take out some of my son’s books, books that I read to him as a kid, right? They’re just a source of so much fun inspiration like this one color. It’s playing detective on trying to talk to as many people as I can about what they want this art to represent. Once we have secured a commission, the first part for me is the most exhilarating and the most daunting part. I’m the one who is looking for the art opportunities. We took the leap and started Cobalt design works.Ĭorio: I work in my design studio. She started realizing she married into a dowry of a fabricator.Ĭorio: Dave and I started coming together, we would work in the garage and just do it as a hobby.įrei: Jennifer had had some successes with the sculptures and all of a sudden HP had a downsizing and I qualified for early retirement. You know what those, yeah, I have one and he said we learned how to TIG and I go, oh, I have a couple of those. And so these art classes, I was having a blast!įrei: And she was coming home from her classes and sharing. I was doing a lot of project management and more process-oriented stuff and taking these art classes at Clark College. I had been working in marketing for about five years. ![]() I thought it was cool but I let him do his thing. We have all these different cars in there. He lived out in Battle Ground and he had a shop that he built, that was at least five times -Ĭorio: Three times bigger than his house. A friend of mine knew him and I thought he had smiling eyes. We were both working at Hewlett Packard at the time and Dave was doing R&D mechanical engineering work and I was in the marketing department. And it says in English, ‘In honor of the Chinese men who laid these tracks despite discrimination and without recognition, today we offer our belated gratitude in sadness’. Then as I dived into the history, I saw just how pivotal the Chinese were in coming over and building the railroad. The golden spike became a canvas for some words. It marked the complete circumference of the railroad around the nation. And Ashland was a very important part because it was a final connection between Portland and San Francisco when they finished the rail. They have a whole railroad district that was created in the late 1800s when the railroad came through. Metal sculpture "Golden Connection" in Ashland, Oregon, created by Cobalt DesignworksĬobalt Designworks / OPB "Golden Connections" by Cobalt DesignworksĬorio: The piece in Ashland was all about a work of art that speaks to the transformation that the railroad made. And I think people tend to have pride in it, even if it’s a little controversial, it becomes something they can talk about and share with people visiting the community and it becomes important to them. ![]() I feel the heaviness and I think that’s why I’m always striving to design with a lightness.įrei: Creating a piece of public art, you’re putting out something that’s visual and creates a conversation. Jennifer Corio: Our mission with our artwork is to lift spirits and brighten the world.Ĭorio: And I’m Jennifer Corio and we make up the artists team for Cobalt Designworks.
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