Hi guys,
Back in 2010 I
finished the Master course in Sculpture at the University of Fine
Arts here
in Bucharest. For my
final exam I had to prepare something more elaborate, and to somehow
combine all the knowledge that I had gathered during these 2 years of
hard work and studying, into one masterpiece! Lol
As you can see from
the pictures below I created an entire cycle of masterpieces! :))
The idea behind them
all started back in 2007 when I was in my 3rd year of
college and I made a snail with some sort of propellers from stone
and glass. The idea appealed to me and I decided to continue it for
my master degree.
As we all know,
snails are tiny little creatures that aren't very agile. I mean,...
they are really, really, really slow. Just like us humans in a way.
Hey!,... who has the time to run nowadays??? :))
So I took these small
and slow living things and gave them superpowers!!! As you can see
from the pictures I made six of them. A really big one, just to make
sure that the jury would be pleased with my effort, two smaller but
fairly complex and three really small. I gave them superpowers just
because I wanted to bring them closer to our rank/status. The
technological advancements in our modern society, the speed and the
goals we have achieved, all define our day to day lives. Though we
have these amazing things all around us, gadgets and smartphones, an
amazing speed at which we can travel and instant access to
information, we are also becoming more and more sedentary, more idle
and lazy,... we're chair warmers. We actually move our bodies just as
little and as slowly as a snail does.
Materials and
working process
For the five small
snails I used all sorts of old objects that I could have found around
my house,...like clocks, computer parts, fishing reels, cut out
parts of plexiglass and so on. Luckily, I managed to buy this
all-around multitool from Dremel, which literally saved my life on
this project.
For the Big one,...
well it's pretty obvious. Two 16 inch alloy rims were “glued”
together and covered with one tire sectioned in two, forming the
shell. From this shell I bound several metallic bars that would
sustain the actual body of the snail. After I placed them in the
right position, I started to weld cut out metal sheets and to attach
different plastic prefabs to give the impression that the snail has
an internal mechanism that is actually working. Unfortunately, it
doesn't! :( The lack of time and money really held me back on this
project. But hey,... maybe a day will come when I'll revive this
beast under a different form and shape, … and ride it in the
sunset.
Hope you'll like
them all!
Bogdan.
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