A quick return to my imaginary metal plants with custom-designed 3D pot for a teacher colleague of K's. Nice diversion from the brain-melting of current WIP. Pure creation, one piece leading to another - sculptural jazz, for lack of a better phrase.
A shovel, an adze head, and the bottom panel of an electrical box met in my Shed, dug up some lawnmower wheels and, thanks to a bit of FURY ROAD / FURIOSA inspiration and an overflowing scraps of scraps drawer became WarPig, the Wasteland's deadliest pull toy. Because if you’re not making your tetanus booster work overtime, can you really call it playtime?
A little experiment, building on the face I made for the hex nut facehugger and using a single piece of flat steel bar and John Buscema’s stick figures in HOW TO DRAW COMICS THE MARVEL WAY. Might do these as a series of project interregnum exercises and /or just to fiddle about.
Went all Lynda Barry, found a squiggle (a faucet knob), and a bunch of different finishes and materials to see how the laser welder would fare. It fared rather well, I think. If I’m going to do anything bigger, I need more scrap; I sense an obtainium scavenging in my future.
Needed a business card holder, made a business card holder - plus it gave me some ideas for projects in other media.
Made this fun little thing – a palette cleanser between the hex nut madness of metal_0048 and moving on to learning laser welding and the TBD metal_0050 – from two pairs of my grandfathers' pliers (and bolt cutter), with a base thrown together from not-quite heavy enough building materials and barn wood scrap. Planning to build a new one once I find something heavy enough to make it play-withable(new word, fuck it) while in its base in addition to being the same in hand-held mode. Core word in its construction was "delight"; wanted to make something my silver-smithing grandmother might have made on a lark.
Being a devout fan of ALIEN neck deep in the excellence that is ALIEN: EARTH, I decided it'd be an intriguing experiment to make a facehugger out of hex nuts. Took inspiration from HOW TO DRAW COMICS THE MARVEL WAY for the stand, an über-minimalist face being hugged. Considering this one a success – though if I never see a hex nut again I'll be good.
A tiny palette / scrap drawer creature cleanser after the bigness of Caligari’s Lighthouse combining one of my 3D-printed plant pot designs with a bunch of nigh-castasides. Name TBD.
Inspired by two of my favorite psychological horror films, 99 years apart – Robert Wiene's THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI and Robert Eggers's THE LIGHTHOUSE – and built from a never-to-run-again combine exhaust pipe (that I got to cut off in the middle of a field), lots of sheet metal, and the door to an abandoned gun safe, CALIGARI'S LIGHTHOUSE is not only the largest-scale piece I've made but a functional floor lamp (if you have a room big enough for it). A fun exploration of nightmarish German expressionism – something I'll definitely keep playing with.
