Tag: assemblage

Spectacular, tiny room hidden behind a hinged electrical outlet cover

Japanese artist Mozu makes incredible, miniature dioramas with tiny, winking electronic devices; their latest piece is The Secret Base of Kubito, a tiny workroom hidden behind an electrical outlet. Mozu says of it, “This work, which was born from the delusion that ‘If I’m small, don’t make a secret base in the wall’, and the wifi router that flashes with a glowing TV are all handmade miniature works.” (Sorry, wonky Bing translation!)
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Leviathan: an eight foot tall, seven foot wide assemblage sculpture “ghost ship”

Last year, artist Jason Stieva completed work on “Leviathan – Ark of the Apocalypse,” a spectacular, 7-foot-long, 8-foot-high sculpture of a ghostly pirate ship. Steiva is an assemblage sculptor and tattoo artist from Whitby, ON who spent 15 months on the ship, which is populated by a variety of readymade Warcraft miniatures and other findings.
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A smaller jet cowling chair, made from a less-cursed plane

Back in 2017, Andrea wrote about Plane Industries gorgeous chairs made from the cowling of the (now notorious) Boeing 737’s jets; now, the company has followed up with a smaller, more practical chair, this one fashioned from a BAe-146’s jet cowling, still featuring the company’s “high gloss shell and dark Alcantara interior.”
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Oblivion Factory: new sculptures from Jud Turner

Sculptor Jud Turner (previously) sends us two new pieces: Deindustry (“a meditation on the industrial divinity of late-stage capitalism, and combines my fear of heights with my fear of over-industrialization”) and Scale of Themis (“an imagined tool for the Greek goddess Themis to weigh possible civilizations against each other. The tiny differences in these two — vertical stackers vs. horizontal placers — seem to balance out”).
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Shiny Fu dog assemblage sculptures

Sculptor Jud Turner (previously) sez, “My childhood friend recently commissioned me to a pair of traditional Chinese Fu Dogs, which symbolize protection. He’s of Chinese descent, recently bought a house in the suburbs, and said ‘I want my kids to know more about their heritage, and I want to scare my neighbors!’ Done and done.”
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New assemblages from sculptor Jud Turner

Sculptor Jud Turner (previously) shows off three of his newest sculptures: the latest in his Oblivion Factory series, “Solitarium”, a full sized California Condor (8+ foot wingspan) fabricated in welded steel and found objects (including 70 of Walmart’s finest butter knives, and various pistol parts):, and another in his series of mechanized fossil fish, The GreedEaters.
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