Fluidity in Stainless Steel: Ray Haydon's Basalt Base Sculpture
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Ray Haydon Fluid 2014, made from stainless steel with a basalt base. Ray Haydon (1950- ) is an Auckland born sculptor who works with several different mediums to experiment with the various forms they take, height 120 cm, width 75 cm, depth 40 cm
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- Basalt - Basalt is a hard, dense volcanic rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava, and makes up most of the earth's oceanic crust.
However it is also the name given by Josiah Wedgwood in 1768 to a fine black unglazed porcelain which he called Wedgwood Black Basalt.
Using this fine-grained stoneware he was able to produce copies of the newly excavated Etruscan pottery from Italy, with a lustrous and smooth, surface, and this new innovation proved to be a huge commercial success.
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