Video: Steampunk Taxidermy Sculptures by Ron Pippin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It would be better if an American sculptor Ron Pippin hid what he was making his outlandish sculptures, so similar to products in the steampunk style. But he, being an honest and open person, does not hide that he works not only with leather, wood, metal parts and other gizmos taken from broken equipment, but also with … the remains of wild animals. As a result, strange creatures resembling Frankenstein are born, made up of pieces of a variety of materials, glued and sewn into one piece. The exhibitions of Pippin's sculptures resemble an out-of-the-box zoo, although it looks more like a cabinet of curiosities, where they go to tickle their nerves, looking at semi-mechanical monsters that once lived in the wild and enjoyed life in a completely normal guise of buffaloes, rabbits, badgers, beavers, dogs and other animals.
Many connoisseurs of steampunk have tried to find a definition of what Ron Pippin does, but the one that belongs to one blogger from America sounds best - she called the exhibitions of the author's strange sculptures "Museum of Natural History in an Alternate Steampunk Universe." And indeed, in addition to animals, Pippin makes figures of people, both from the past and the present, dresses them in traditional clothes, as far as possible, for that time, and we can only hope that this time there were no "living" remains, as in the case of animal figures.
Who needs all this and for whom, in fact, outlandish animals are "born", only Ron Pippin himself knows, and also his website with a very extensive portfolio.
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