My lamp started life as some rusty car parts that I found in a barn. Some headlamps, two support arms for the front wheels, a prop shaft, gearbox, car horn and some metal tubing.

 I began the project by welding the two support arms together to make a base for the lamp. Then I cut the prop shaft I half and put the gears from a transition inn between the cuts with some metal tubing. Then I brought out some sheet metal and made a mounting bracket for the two headlamps. Then I disassembled the two headlamps. I found some bowl like shapes inside them that I could use to balance the proportions of the lamp, and make it a more open shape. I mounted the bowl like shapes with welding wires. Before I wired inn the lamps I sandblasted, polished and painted it. I painted it in black and kept some of the raw brushed metal to give it a rougher look. I tried to create a balanced contrast between the black paint and the brushed metal. When the paint dried I wired up the lamps.

I am not that pleased with the end result. The sandblasting devise I used wasn’t strong enough to get all the paint and rust of, so in some areas it’s rather rough. And the tape I used to mask was freezing tape. Not masking tape that I should have used (if I had any). So the masking is slightly uneven. im quite happy with the shape of the lamp. i tried to make the lamp in a mixture of organic and gemetric shapes. Though some of it is more geomtric than oraganic.