All the President’s Men - the concentric desks in the Library of Congress seemed like a newspaper conveyor belt breaking Nixon's Watergate. Departing from steel, materials included bicycle chain,
printer plates, brass, gimbaled
compass, foundry form,
and copper. Photo
credits Chris Myers.
24” wide x
13” deep x
13” tall
Miniature worlds evoking nostalgia with a modern twist. Meticulously handcrafted vignettes made of welded steel and embedded with carefully curated vintage object fragments. Inspired by classic dystopian film and literature, and disallusioned by the parallels addressed in todays fraught yet recurring themes of the past.
62 mini album awards commissioned by benny blanco - when the album "friends keep secrets" won two GOLD and one PLATINUM awards, I was commissioned to make 62!! tiny versions INSTEAD of the traditional ones that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) creates. Materials: sterling silver pattern wire, gold plated discs, sterling silver discs, heat treated copper, magnifying lens, glass beads, and jewelry chain
1” wide x 2” tall. Also in collections of ed sheeran, khalid, halsey and many others. Below are the original images his art directors sent to me for inspiration and design:
The left two images above are the designs the creative directors sent me - first the ornate one, then they changed to the simplified one. But I couldn't get the ornate one out of my head, so I made them two prototypes. Luckily, they chose my ornate interpretation. Being cheeky and to protect the tiny prototypes in shipping, I sent them in perfectly sized Altoids tins. They liked that idea so much, that they wanted ALL 62 to be shipped in Altoids tins. I had a lot of mints to go through. Fortunately, I found a source that went through the mints in RECORD time. Of course, I made little satin "beds" for them out of gold satin. The last photo shows the sterling silver frames I made individually instead of casting. They are shown before cleaning and spraying with automotive paint in benny's favorite color PINK. At the bottom is a video of the unboxing and a few photos screen-grabbed from the Architectural Digest site when they toured his home and zoomed in on it sitting on his shelving of tchotchkes.
