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+Title: Hand of Ozymandias
+Date: 2012-03-23
+Category: Projects
+Summary: A withered hand I welded out of scrap metal.
+
+I was visiting my cousins in Radium, BC and decided to learn stick welding at
+their shop. I wanted to create a sculpture, so with pieces of scrap metal I
+welded together this hand. The beads are far from perfect. Working with small
+pieces of rusted metal made it difficult.
+
+![a rusted metalic hand]({static}/images/hand-of-ozymandias/hand1.jpg)
+
+## The Name
+
+One of my favourite poems is [Ozymandias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias)
+by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It's about the inevitable complete decline of all
+rulers and the empires they build, however mighty in their time. This is the
+hand of Ozymandias sticking out from the sand, grasping for life after he has
+been reduced to dust.
+
+## Construction
+
+I eyeballed the joint angles and my cousin cut them to spec with an angle
+grinder. It was made in a machine shop with no real planning done ahead of time.
+In between welds, I used my own hand as a reference. Below is a picture of me
+adding a bead to it.
+
+![me welding the hand causing a very bright light]({static}/images/hand-of-ozymandias/hand2.jpg)