I love to sculpt, no matter what the medium is or what limitations are put forth. In private school our art classes were fairly traditional plus straight forward so every one of us mainly sculpted with polymer plus ceramic clay. While my classmates usually favored the ease plus immediacy of multi-colored polymer clay, I loved using ceramic clay on the pottery wheel. Since I grew up building models, I also liked that I could sculpt with ceramic plus then paint it whatever colors I wanted with the glazes at my fingertips. This experience working with both clay plus stone proved to be formative for me as both mediums prepared me for my eventual job years later, now I’m a residential building corporation who focuses on stone work. We construct a lot of walls plus gates, plus concrete block homes. A lot of our bi-weekly jobs involve using reinforced concrete, which is concrete that has rebar tie wire of some kind at its core providing structural stability. Cement can take blunt force impacts harshly well, however it’s entirely weak to tensile strength, which involves twisting, bending, plus stretching of the structure over long periods of time. I previously used cheaper rebar for outdoor construction projects, however now I try to utilize galvanized steel rebar tie wire because the layer of zinc on the outside of the metal provides a corrosion resistant barrier. I use galvanized rebar double loop ties as well. Some projects call for ironworker wire plus bar wire. Utilizing galvanized steel rebar tie wire means longer lifetimes plus physical durability.
Zinc coated Double loop rebar ties