BLOM
To the makers I have worked with and to the silence of the anvil (115,000 strikes, 6000 layered internal welds), Los Angeles, 2022
A flower of many colours, it began. Decades of contemplation, years of construction. Forgotten arts and forgotten tools. Muscle and guile, Blom was born on the anvil, in the smoke and the soot and the dust. Blom tested my capacity. Blom tested my stamina. Blom asked the toughest, most uncomfortable questions, and never permitted certainty. Certainty, after all, is the domain of the disengaged, of the inane. A flower of black and silver, of contrast and shadows. Blom revealed its truth. Slowly. It revealed my truth. It laid me bare. Blom is a flower of revival and salvation. A flower that blossomed through the cracks of uncertainty.
Hot and cold-rolled mild steel cold-rolled by hand, forged in coal, hammered by hand, polished by hand, waxed to seal
Internal Diameter 57 in, 145 cm | Weight 180 lb, 82 kg
Series 1/1
P.O.A.
