Chris Conte was born in Norway before moving to New York at a young age. He used to make prosthetic limbs, before he combined his knowledge with a love of sculpture and biomechanics. He has designed an extraordinary range of steam powered and clockwork insects. It is worth browing his gallery, some of his other sculptures are pretty amazing too - if somewhat unnerving to study too closely!
I'm not a spider person, but I want ten of these, as minions, to scurry about doing secret stuff for me...
Mike Libby is based in Maine and fuses real life specimens with watch parts. He has been exhibited at the Smithsonian and his work is found across the US and in boutiques in Europe.
There's something quite beautiful about this dragonfly, I can imagine dozens of them skiming the surface of a pond, the late sunight glinting off their brass structure.
The dragonfly is very pretty. The spider, I find, to be still creepy.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm not into spiders, but I like the idea of sending those ones out to spy for me :)
DeleteI thought the spider was a tap fitting at first and would really love them to be. OK, horrible to clean and all, but wouldn't they look great?
ReplyDeleteThank you for bringing both these artists to my attention - new stuff to look at :) Always good.
Haha! Now when I look at it I see a seriously cool tap fitting... not sure if I could lay in the bath and stare at it though... lol
DeleteThe dragonfly is exquisite! My son has just begun learning to make watches, I'll show these to him.
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I love the dragonfly, I am going to have to find a way to incorporate it into my story :)
DeleteHow much do I want the spider! Hundreds of them...
ReplyDeleteI think you should change mediums, give sculpture a go and start producing them :)
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Deletehaha I'd get frustrated with all the little pieces and throw all my toys out of the cot within an hour!
DeleteGet Zeb to make them. :p
Dewd! That clockwork spider is awesome! One of the characters in my D&D game has something along those lines... only it acts like Gir from Invader Zim.
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Wow, these are so cool!
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