Paper is peeling off, but it says HOME, and I thought it was an interesting dichotomy. It’s freezing cold, in the middle of a blizzard, the billboard “The complexity of this piece just blew me away when I saw it. Know if it’s because these cameras/sculptures look a bit scary or because I resembleĪ mad scientist when combining all the odd bits and pieces to bring these one-of-a-kind My students have dubbed them “Franken-cameras” - I don’t Inside the Ames School of Art’s sculpture studio you might find some recent examples That deconstructing and reconstructing objects provides. Result is an assemblage or a found-object sculpture.
Other times I concentrate solely on conceptual and aesthetic notions: the Sometimes the motivation is to improve on the original design of something, fromĪntique Italian motorcycles to a renovated 100-year-old building on Bloomington’s
I take everything apart and put it together in a new Wanted to have a bicycle, I had to build one. Making things from scrounged parts was a necessary skill for us. In their original form and sometimes according to my own design. Later I learned to put things back together - sometimes Often I would takeĪpart alarm clocks or other mechanical devices just to get at the little gears, which Harness and leashed to the clothesline, I would pull a Houdini. Moments after I was buckled into my child
Hello, my name is Kevin, and I am a compulsive tinkerer.īy all accounts I have always been very adept at taking things apart. Key parts of his Franken-camera project were supported by the Transforming Lives campaign'sĮndowments that support faculty and student research and artistic initiatives. Story and art by KEVIN STRANDBERG Strandberg with one of his "monsters" - which is both a sculpture and a working camera. The Franken-Camera Project From the sublime to the ridiculous, Professor Kevin Strandberg transforms pieces and
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