It's been 9 months since I started working on my latest piece, the Dimensional Analysis Engine, and as the time-frame might suggest, I feel as if I've given birth. I'm exhausted. Frayed at the edges. Feeling the effects of too many long nights and weekends with too much alcohol, and too little rest.

But it's done, and for the most part, I'm very happy with this one. Of course there is the usual laundry list of things I would still like to do to it; the things I had to leave off for practicality and time's sake or that one last little thing that isn't quite polished correctly, etc.. but I have to put down the blowtorch and step away because my time is up. All that's left to do now is shoot the final photos of it, crate the beast up, and load it on the art-mover's truck to Vermont where it will sit in the Shelburne Museum's Time Machines: Robots, Rockets and Steampunk show until October alongside a few of my other pieces.

I love this stage of the process; you sit down for the first time in what seems like months, your hands and clothes are dirty with the dust and grime of your labor, your fingers are chafed and raw, your joints ache, and you just feel numb. You sit and stare at the object of so many months of labor and think to yourself... never again. But as you sit and decompress, a little tickle at the back of your mind drags you back, and you start thinking.... what's next!

I'll post the final shots of this behemoth in the next few days, so stay tuned!

Cheers
Ævil Mike