Pierced Diamonds

28 x 6 x 3 in. steel, charred oak, 2023

This totem features an interesting piece of diamond plate steel I found recently. Beneath it floats a rust-pitted piece of square rod. The channel cut in the burnt oak board is not unusual in the oak pallet boards I use. Here it works with the thin rod to counter the strong horizontal force of the cutouts in the steel plate.