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Tension Study No. 04

Detail of a heat-marked steel edge
Object / YearW–041 / 2026
LocationLisbon, PT
ClassificationFreestanding sculpture

Cold steel, blackened and waxed, still holding its breath.

Dark steel arc rising against a furnace-lit ground

A four-millimetre sheet persuaded into a load-bearing line.

Tension Study began as a test of how little material could hold a monumental posture. Its two folded edges act as hidden beams; the broad face carries the marks of rollers, clamps and the final adjustment by heat.

From a distance the work reads as one continuous gesture. Up close, the logic becomes legible: welded interruptions, minute changes in radius, and a base that transfers the apparent instability cleanly into the ground.

  • F–01Full-scale paper profiles
  • F–02Controlled heat corrections
  • F–03Final joint closed by hand
Next object / W–036Black Arc