Appendage No.2
3D scan/print of arm for Printed Portrait 2021Edition 6 of 10
Hand cast and finished in pigmented Jesmonite
300 x 120 x 120mm
Accompanied by a numbered and signed certificate
About this Edition.
As with all these monthly Appendage series, No.2 derives from a larger work which, in this instance, is the arm section of a 3D printed portrait I made last year to accompany three analog portraits in a show titled Argosy. The combination of the hand and machine-made was intended to help me try and fathom which method might yield the most sculptural spirit or charge.
Whilst scanning admittedly only captures a millisecond, I can't help thinking it makes sense ... particulary with limbs etc. like this. Not just because it catches all the veiny details a life-cast would, but because it has these really nice subtle digital glitches between the fingers and on the cuffs where the facetss kind of merge ... as well as that weird fuzzy focus caused by the lines of the printer.
These printed parts also make up the corpse of an animatronic version I'm currently working on that blinks, stretches ... and eventually dozes off. It's presently a pile of pulleys and motors but will hopefully be operational by the end of the year!