Art objects and methods of producing same
OwnerRichard W. Seegerinventor
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Abstract
A unique art object comprising multiple photographic images reflecting the vocational and avocational interests and personality traits of a featured person or group, each image being mounted upon a rigid plastic dimensionally stable backing and provided with a mounting surface for mating with and adherence to a base member to define a pleasing and meaningful pattern, either alone or in combination with a symbolic background. Special methods of preparing each image, securing each image to a backing, preparing the sculpture base and securing the backed images to the sculpture base in a preselected arrangement to form a completed art object are described.
Claims9
An art object comprising:
- a base member;
- a plurality of discrete contoured photographic images preselected to depict varied vocational, avocational and personality traits of a featured person;
- a plurality of dimensionally stable backings, each contoured to conform to the contour of a different one of said photographic images and having a mounting surface defined thereupon, each one of said images being secured in registered relationship with a corresponding one of said dimensionally stable backings, each of said mounting surfaces being secured to said base member at a location predetermined for each of said backed images.
The method of producing an art object having a base member, a plurality of discrete contoured photographic images preselected to depict varied vocational, avocational and personality traits of a featured person, each secured to a dimensionally stable backing having a mounting surface defined thereupon, said mounting surface being secured to said base member at a location predetermined for each of said images, comprising the steps of producing a plurality of conceptually coordinated photographic images;
- selecting a desired number of said photographs;
- mounting each of said desired number of said photographs upon an independent dimensionally stable backing;
- trimming each said mounted photograph along the contour of said image;
- cutting a mounting surface upon each of said contour-cut backed images;
- and fusing each said mounting surface to a position upon a sculpture base predetermined to provide a pleasing arrangement between the several images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.