Beanbag Swing

     As a follow on from the 'Clarify' project, where I focused on my strength, textiles, I have been working on the location of the textiles work for my Location project. My jeans beanbag (Jeanbag) was my favourite piece from the Clarify project and I am creating ways for that and other works to be used in a new location.  
    The first creation is a swing, which consists of a welded frame - my first welding attempt, which supports the doughnut beanbag and can be hung from various locations. I rolled the metal rods, welded them, angle grinded any rough edges, filed, painted and painted again before hanging the swing in my garage to test it. The photos of this process are below.

 Measured the rolled steel hoops for welding

 Angle grinded the steel bars to get better surface area to weld

 Positioned pieces ready to weld

 Welding

 Electric sanding to remove splashes of weld and smooth welds

 Base coat of paint

 Coat of blue paint to blend in with denim beanbag

 Hung frame in garage to test, used 6mm climbing rope

 Beanbag hanging in frame

 Testing of beanbag swing

 Testing of beanbag swing

 Testing of beanbag swing

 Handy pockets to hold phone!

 Covered roped with jeans for aesthetics

     Base view of beanbag