About Pricing
Art, mass produced, is not as
desirable as those pieces which are hand crafted. Works done at Inflection Point Mobiles are one of a kind –
each tuned to a unique conclusion.
Most of the materials are readily
available. Although they do
fluctuate with the market (in particular copper, which is used throughout the
sculptures to date (copper is the main constituent of bronze). Even with these uncertainties, the prices
are not exorbitant. It is in the forming
of the parts into a work of art where the investment lies. The bulk of the cost of mobile
construction is labor.
Attempting to defray some of this
labor, forces the artist out and
the engineer in. While this might
seem like a non-recurring cost to some managers, that hat is worn by the same
person in a studio shop. Other
volume focused notions involve more product oriented decisions which too are
particularly distasteful to an engineer struggling toward a more creative
craft. Efforts along that line
might indeed drop the price but it would rob the artist of the pleasure of the
journey.
For these reasons each mobile is
done slowly and deliberately. A
design is conceived, the layout is sketched, initial discussions are heard
about the shapes or form and then the actual building begins. Optics are selected and laid out. Rings are fabricated for each specific
piece of glass. Copper tubes are
chosen and cut to length. With the
bending, initial form starts to appear.
Wire gets wrapped and shaped to the tubes and the hanging begins.
Going vertical is next and
evaluation of the design ensues: did it work? Was the concept a success? What
needs adjusting?
It takes many hours to
complete even a simple two tiered design.
Larger works require even more time. Wrestling over the price break points around
these numbers is daunting. I would
like as many as possible share in the enjoyment these pieces bring to a yard or
home.
Pricing starts around $2750 for the
small 2-tiered design. A Stabile
version of the same size would be $3400. Other styles are by request but are
based once again, on the hourly content involved.
Please contact us for discussions on custom options.
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