Video: Roulette, hammer and other instruments made of money. Coin Sculptures by Stacy Lee Webber
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you have always wondered why people collect small coins in piggy banks, the answer to this question is in front of you. Sculptor and painter from Indiana, Stacey Lee Webberdoes not collect coins so that she always has a strategic cash reserve at hand. She needs them for creativity: the girl creates sculptures from coins … But not only this is remarkable for the work of the artist. Tens and hundreds of coins, chained, fused and welded together, do not at all form busts of celebrities, not figurines of animals or birds, or abstract creatures from other dimensions. Coin sculptures represent the most common household tools: a screwdriver, hammer, saw, tape measure, and even a shovel with a stepladder. It may well be that they can even be used for their intended purpose.
Ordinary people spend money in order to purchase all these tools in stores. Stacy Lee Webber spends coins in order to make them with her own hands. This process of selecting and processing coins for a particular sculpture is rather complicated and time-consuming. Like people, coins require an individual approach, depending on what alloy the coin is made from, what country it is from and what year of issue. Having found this out, Stacy is determined with the method of processing the material, well, and proceeds, in fact, to the process itself.
Each instrument sculpture is unique and exclusive. And not only because it is made by hand. Even if you repeat the same figure several times, they will still not be the same, because Stacy does not like to repeat herself - this is a routine, and routine kills creativity and inspiration. By the way, theaters, music and good books inspire the artist, and you can get acquainted with her work on the artist's website.
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