IIW 2023 Welded Art Book

SDG 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

A key 2030 target with this SDG is to ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality. nExhibit “Unity with Nature –n nConservation of Fauna and Flora”n For this piece, the students wanted to showcase their love of nature as well as their newfound skills in metal arc welding.

The tree in the exhibit was made with a combination of two techniques, Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) and Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW). The entire piece is fabricated from steel, most of it scraps from other projects. The idea was to also show that metal doesn’t have to always appear cold and hard, but can have a certain organic quality to it, as with the base plate giving a black soil appearance.

The tree is the symbol of life. nDimensions of exhibitn 80 cm high x 50 cm square

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Welded Art PHOTOGRAPHIC Exhibition – IIW 2023 Digital Collection