Creatures
Tortoise: Tommy the tortoise
Following the example of Picasso, I have made animals out of commonly found objects. The praying mantises have electric razor blade heads, the python is a large coil, the lady bug is a soccer ball, and the tortoise is a large gymnastic ball and pipe insulation.
Praying Mantises: Fred and Ginger; when the male approaches the female he does so cautiously and with a dance to entice her. Once mating is complete he leaves cautiously, but usually she snips his head off and eats him. This gives her energy to give birth.
Snake: A python
Ladybugs: Mum and baby
Penguin: This is Peter the King Penguin from Antarctica. He is made from a glass vase with an upside down planter as his head and a snorkel tube as his beak.
Ant: Andy the super-ant. Made ftom polystyrene eggs and pipe cleaners.
Harley the flamingo: Made from a Harley-Davidson motorcycle gas tank, irrigation pipes, a bicycle seat cushion and died goose feathers.
Black Swan. Found in Australia. The body is a motorcycle gas tank
Baby elephant, Body is plastic barrel.
Eco-shark, made from plastic bottles, also illuminated
Model: Silvertown
I take many pills. Every weekI I was throwing away many empty pill casings made of plastic plastic with a silver background that . I decided that I must find an artistic use for these objects. Somehow to me they looked like blocks of houses seen from a distance. This was how I conceived of the model of Silvertown. I added silver foil from the many chocolate bars I consume as well as the golden cardboard in the packaging of the smoked salmon I consume. This all led me to make the model of Silvertown, that I present here.
