Video: Flying pigs and metal insects. Fred Conlon's incredible mini-sculptures
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Steel toys and concrete blocks are often synonymous with a difficult and miserable childhood. but Fred Conlon was not at all one of those disadvantaged children who are forced to entertain themselves with such dubious toys. It's just his hobby: to find new use for useless metal junk, turning old parts of certain mechanisms into funny, sometimes cool and funny metal sculptures … Once we have already talked about how Fred Conlon changes the fate of old military helmets, constructing outlandish insects from them. Today we will talk about all the same insects, and also about flying pigs, clumsy crabs and other products that are born in the Sugar Post Metal workshop, created under the guidance of a "metal" sculptor.
Unattractive metal rubbish, which many car owners rake in piles in garages and then throw into a landfill, in the hands of Fred Conlon is transformed, and becomes much prettier and more attractive. Even grenades that have outlived their time (previously put in order by specialists in pyrotechnics) receive new "faces" and become safe ants, flies and other bugs. And old steel belts become dangerous sundew flowers that swallow flies, dragonflies and moths. However, there are also plenty of flies and moths among the artist's metal sculptures.
By the way, it is curious that the author did not always dream of working with such a hard, cold and stubborn material like metal. At one time, Fred Conlon dreamed of a pottery workshop and eventually started a family business called Sugar Post Pottery. But when the desire to work with metal flared up even stronger and brighter, the workshop was redesigned, and since then the sculptor has been working only in this direction.
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