Gold Medal Winning Sculpturte in Static Art-Bot contest
The Deadly Necrobot of Death (Daphne)*
*If you think the name/title is goofy, its supposed to be. It evolved from discussing my robot idea with Iggy and other friends, and thinking of it as a fun project rather than trying to be a really scary thing...... I couldn't possibly make anything a fraction as scary as what our country's elected leaders seem to come up with or what half of the population seems to think is acceptable behavior.
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found materials: cow bone, tin can, scooter cover, broken lawn chair legs, flexible tubing, shelf brackets, christmas light packaging brackets, misc wiring, disassembled printer and cd drive parts, cardboard tubes, plywood, yogurt containers, wine bottle shipping styrofoam, floor mop parts, hardware, and a lot of whatever bits
purchased materials: hardware, paint, glass vials (purchased at salvage junk art supply store), adhesives Originally I took on the robot art sculpture to be able to attend the Robogames event without paying because my friend Josh (The Eel) had a robot (Beerbash) competing in the combating part of Robogames. But, of course, the opportunity to make a trash art sculpture became its own thing for me. The idea for the necrobot thing started from the vulture skull I assembled to display my harpy costume....part bone, part metal. |
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Daphne's strange claw like feet are actually made of cut up yogurt containers, painted and nailed to a plywood frame. The lower legs are actually foam wine bottle packing material, cut up and slid over cardboard tubes, with mop pieces, bottle tops and misc. additions then painted to look like rusty metal. The upper legs are plastic garden chair leg parts, cow shoulder blades and some other random things. |
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Many people tried to figure out what Daphne actually did. This "fuel" stuff (bloody vials) really confuses people because it looks wired up to something...I did, after all, use real mechanical and electronic pieces. I made it to look like a robot, so it looks like a robot that does something....something rather grotesque.
As my friend Josh said to someone at the show, who was wondering if it did anything: Based on what it looks like what it would do if it worked, would you really want it to witness it in action? |
Daphne is in need of a full skeletal transplant! When I return from my distant journeying this winter, I hope to be able to weld together a good structural support so that she won't keep falling over from minor movements.
I will then hopefully find her a decent public display location for a short time, when she isn't staying with a friend.