#functional sculpture

[fromthedust]

AVIAN READER: STEAMPUNK BIRDHOUSE (revised post tenants, 2023)

wood, copper, brass, bronze, steel, glass, plastic, found objects, limestone, wren’s egg - 11"x 9¾"x 10¼"

This piece been outside my studio for several years, and a couple of years ago was used by a pair of Carolina Wrens which come every year and have nested in my ladder hanging on the outside of the studio several times. I could not use the ladder for several years each Spring, so I had decided to make a couple of wren-sized birdhouses which I placed near the studio so they would have another housing option other than my ladder. The birdhouse roof was damaged after a fallen tree limb fell on it knocking it onto the ground. I repaired the birdhouse roof (see the copper ‘stitched’ detail image above). After the repair the birdhouse was used by wrens a couple of years ago, and — as I have an offer to purchase this piece — I finally took it down and opened it up so I could clean it out for the new (human) owner. I discovered an intact unhatched egg in the nest. I carefully removed the nest and the egg and cleaned the house out, making a new base for displaying the house the new home (a log cabin in the mountains of North Georgia).  The wren’s egg became a part of the new sculpture, resting atop the bookshelf inside. The new owner will have the nest which I saved. All the books on the shelf represent significant books on my bookshelves, though they are not accurate facsimiles . . . 

#art by me #sculpture #birdhouse #wren's nest #my artowrk #books #egg #functional sculpture #Don Dougan #reworked

[bluebelly-sun-serpentine]

a home for carpenter bees

#humans helping out #native bees #bees #apis #functional sculpture #botanical gardens #photoset #lensblr #original photography

[artstfuff]

woman figurine, terracotta, 3600 bc s

#woman figurine #sculpture #BC #terracotta #ancient Egypt #Egyptian #my post #btw it's not really a Venus as venues we call women figurines from palaeolithic #usually about 50-10 thousand years bc #but when it comes to basic features as well as hypothetical function it may have served I would call it a much later venues:)

[yarrowglass]

Tiny borosilicate Chao!

Approx. 1" tall each

#glass #functional art #glassblowing #borosilicate #lampworking #glassart #sculpture #figure #chao #sonic the hedgehog #sonic chao #sonic

[texaschainsawmascara]

Lazy Boy Crucifix, Christopher Chiappa (1999)

#christopher chiappa #art #sculpture #functional art #applied arts #assemblage #interactive art #furniture #crucifix #jesus #jesus christ #catholicism #catholic #christianity #christian #religion #god #cross

[tacit-semantics]

Netted jellyfish :) little clumsy on the execution but I do think the visions there and I ALSO think it would be a lot of fun in like a scene or something. Get my hands on a shoebox and go wild kinda thing

#id in alt #first netting pattern I’ve done all on my own think it would be fun to fuck with color and design of the bell part #maybe make it a little bigger? you can like. see through netting as a function of it which makes attaching the tentacles difficult because #it gets muddy it gets muddy. think that would help mitigate it though #oh I didn’t get any good progress pictures which is unfortunate because I like having those for more obscure fiber arts like this one so #people have a better idea of what’s going on sjjsjs but that’s fine. I suppose it doesn’t quite justify it?? but regardless #fiber arts #netting #netted lace #lacemaking #soft sculpture #sea creatures #jellyfish #net making #my work

[valentineartstudio]

Sharing some older work from the archive today. These to-scale body shaped planters are titled The Lovers Series 2019 and are made in the image of my wife and I. The womans body on the left: Raku clay, underglaze, clear glaze, and acrylic paint. The mans body on the right: Red clay, underglaze, acrylic paint. Displayed in the Minneapolis College Spring 2019 Gallery and Sota Pop 2019 Show.

#t4t #t4t couple #trans artwork #trans artist #sculpture #ceramic #functional art #planters #transgender #bodies #art #clay #ceramic art #Minnesota #Minneapolis #naturecore #crystalcore

[danceintheskies]

are there any interesting looking PC cases that don't look like the designers were jacking it to cyberpunk 2077

#rgb lights give me a headache :pensive: #forever thinking of that one sculpture that was like #a pc tower that looked like it was made of chinese (blue and white) porcelain #that fucked so hard #my posts #edit it wasn't a sculpture apparently! it was a functional custom order #also it's called qinghua porcelain. i learn something new every day

[cozyypunkart]

Making the jewelry mushie for my roomie’s bday

Etsy coming soon? 🤔

(If you take inspiration from this pls credit me ❤️ I’m a disabled artist trying to monetize my art for the income boost. If you really want a similar dish, pls consider commissioning me 😊)

#mushroom #mushie #mushroom art #disabled artist #queer artist #Cottagecore #diy #jewelry #earrings #frogs #bugs #Fairycore #pastel #kawaii #rings #functional art #sculpture #Sculpey

[fromthedust]

Vladimir Tzesler & Sergei Voichenko - Belarusian designers

The Living Chair

#art by others #other's artwork #functional sculpture #chair

[titleknown]

In terms of weird goobs I have found online, I feel I have to share with you this USB Hub Monster designed by user Fungus-Amungus on Instructables.

Lookit ‘em’, they’re great!

#goobs #goobers #creature design #sculpture #good art #functional art #cute

[paperlovesadness]

Fuck man... I ADORE the The Car aesthetic so hard

The music videos. The color palette. Yesss - even the clothes they wear (even if bland) - but It all fits so perfectly with the album GOD

That Sculptures video is making me feel things. Melancholic-sentimental to the point of reaching your bones. It's perfect for the song.

And how could people not adore this album??? It's a crime. Sometimes I feel like It's the perfect album for these times.

If I had to choose the colors that represent the way our society and the world is going right now - they'd be the The Car pallette for sure.

I can't even explain it.

#brain vomit after seeing the Sculptures video unexpectedly before going to sleep #maybe it's slight societal collapse vibes to me #well anyway these thoughts aren't too coherent but I'm processing #and just... man I really really do love this album #I hope Alex knows there are so mamy people who truly fully and completely love it #because the online talk from most people is just... ugh. but it's loud #hope he's felt seen by at least a few fans #if that even matters to him of course #// #screaming and adding actual coherent functional tags later #// my posts

[texaschainsawmascara]

by Nicholas Devlin (not AI)

#bro makes a whole bunch of these & I thought it was AI at first crazy #nicholas devlin #decor #home decor #sculpture #art #sculptures #functional art #vanity #design #interior design

[grammarpedant]

[ID: close up picture of two ceramic objects, one with a swirly handle and blue body, one a bowl white with blue masking tape tear drop shapes pasted on at intervals. a small plastic tub of dairy product sits inside the bowl /end ID]

took some projects home with me to prep for next session. im very prepared to go into the studio :D

To do:

Prime the handle with white underglaze

Albany Black followed by [remove tape] M&T on the right

reglaze two bowls (buttermilk, alkaline turquoise)

throw a rice bowl (1.25 lbs)

trim a mug

trim a spaceship (this will be hell- it's not flat at the top)

trim an incense burner + its lid (this will also be hell)

throw a tiny top hat

throw a rattle body

To take home:

orange and green underglaze

incense burner lid for carving

Man! lots to get done

#doing something somewhat experimental with the left object #i think next time i'd just try harder to front load the reference checking on the left object #and just make it a literal sculpture of what it is instead of attempt to Evoke it. 's just that it also needs to be a functional handle... #verso talks #verso touches clay #ceramics #clay art #pottery

[deadyetkawaii]

Party time!

#mothman #cryptid #cryptozoology #artist on tumblr #digital art #illustration #i'm pretty sure he doesn't want to be here #someone said there was going to be a lamp sculpture #but it was just a sculpture OF a lamp and it wasn't even functional #he used to go to partied once ever 8 years #now its every 12 years #great going Greg...

[haml3t]

A relative is commissioning me to make her a set of wine goblets and just setting a baseline in my mind of how much I will charge I’ve already spent that money tonight on glazes for other projects

#forever in pursuit of the perfect purple 💜 #in pottery in dyeing my hair in home decor I mean there are many perfect shades lavenders to violets but she’s so finicky she deserves to b #purples in/soon to be in my pottery locker: smokey merlot; eggplant; lavender mist; violet; flambé; grape (turns out indigo tho) #so many things on the shelf rn in different stages several important projects! important things functionally for my home and important gift #...and other things that I don't care about and will therefore be using mostly as test tiles for all these glazes #but like every single time I think a piece is so nasty I'm willing to smash it somebody tells me they were admiring it..... #eye of the beholder buy it then #no really even I don't think they'll be bad and I will have several pieces up for general sale soon test tile or not 😸 #and this gift I'm making for my surgeon a sculptural personal political piece is lighting my artistic fire ❤️‍🔥