#tape sculpture

[clanoffelidae]

I don’t have an updated picture of her but I’ve been working on my lab wolf some more. Idk if I ever shared a picture here to begin with so this is her from a while ago. :)

I had to hide her a while back because we had an important tour group coming by, so I stashed her in that little space you can see behind the paper stand (black thing right behind the wolf) and the broken glass box (white box to the left with the bright orange biohazard trash bags). Because I then put paper in said paper stand I no-object-permanence forgot she was there lmao

She’s made entirely of stuff from within the lab, mostly scrap paper that would need to be shredded anyway, some wooden stir sticks we use to agitate samples (we work with serum but sometimes samples have clots we have to agitate so the serum can be separated out since the clot is stuck to the side of the tube and won’t let the serum separate, horses also tend to have fiber clots that basically hold the serum captive and so we squish it out with the stick before centrifuging), some bits of scrap parafilm that would be thrown out otherwise (we order some liquid media that comes parafilmed shut and normally the parafilm would just get trashed, it’s on sterile media so it’s not contaminated or anything, I would NEVER use parafilm that had been on a sample lmao), and tape :)

My bosses don’t mind bc she’s something I work on very scarcely during short incubation periods I don’t have time to do anything productive with, or for a few minutes at the end of the day etc. For instance the test I currently run has some wash cycles where I put the slides in a basin with some PBS and they sit on a plate that automatically moves in a circle to gently wash them for 3 minutes, then I change out the PBS and let it go for another 3 minutes, then change the PBS and it goes for 4 minutes, then I can continue. This happens twice throughout the test and I’ll use these short periods to finish filling out some paperwork if it’s not done, but if it is then like 🤷 whoever’s running the test will usually just sit/stand there waiting to change the PBS so my bosses don’t mind if I work on lab wolf a little bit during those times. She doesn’t take up much space, I know to hide her from higher ups who might disapprove, and is just a fun little thing for me to do to keep myself occupied and I’m clearly enjoying myself so there’s no reason for them to snip at me. I also do some origami out of scrap paper and they’ve told me to de-clutter before when I made too much and I didn’t mind, it was just something to do to keep my hands occupied, so they know I’ll get rid of her if I have to (albeit not without a fair bit of sadness as I’ve put much more work into her than any of the origami 🥲)

And the only things she’s made of that wouldn’t be trashed anyway are some tape and wooden sticks. We throw the sticks out if we accidentally drop them and she’s the only thing I’ve made with them, and she uses about as much tape as we might use to shut two broken glass boxes to send down for autoclaving, and we send down at least half a dozen a week, so it’s not as if I’m repurposing all of our lab supplies for arts and crafts or anything lmao. So no one really minds as long as I’m not working on her excessively, don’t let her get in the way of work, and make sure to hide her/not work on her when an audit or tour group is coming by.

I call her my lab wolf not just because she’s something I work on at the lab but because she can’t LEAVE the lab due to our rules about decontaminating anything that leaves the lab. She wouldn’t be able to be safely decontaminated so she can’t ever leave the lab. In the lab she was born and in the lab she shall die one day. At MOST if we were moving to a new lab location she might be able to be put in a bag, have the outside of that cleaned, and then unpacked once back in the lab, but I could never take her home or anything.

Sadly I never brought my phone in to get a picture of her during her early stages, this is the only picture I have, but she actually has a jointed spine/tail and a rib cage under there for support! Of course, with all the tape/paper/parafilm on top she doesn’t have much range of movement anymore, but her neck/spine/tail is made of small cut pieces of stir stick taped together, and had quite a good range of motion when naked! The rib cage was both to increase her weight at her center of mass to make her more stable, and so that way I had a good base to work with to help make sure her chest was larger than her abdomen. :) You can still feel some of the ribs if you gently push along her chest, and cab faintly see a shadow of one in front of her shoulder there!

She’s definitely not the most anatomically correct or impressive statue out there but she’s just something I’m doing for fun at work during my occasional down moments where I don’t have the time to start anything else, and I love her :)

[zegalba]

Tom Sachs: Hello Kitty (1996) duct tape, velcro, thermal adhesive, steel screws

[twistedmanul]

Wire and tape sculpture

The fucked up guy!

[minimavisibilia]

Nick Relph Lusty Ghost (39) 2023 Cardboard, stickers, tape, silkscreen ink, mica 91.4 x 142.9 x 1.6 cm (36 x 56.3 x 0.6 in.)

[thelemonsnek]

[id: a turnaround video of an abstract sculpture. It is of a creature walking, with fin-like tendrils coming off of its back. Each of the images is a photo of the sculpture, showing off different angles of it. The sculpture is made from paper and masking tape, and is very smooth and organic looking. End id]

FINALLY DONE WITH THIS STAGE LETS GOOOOOOOO FUCK YOUUUUUU

This thing has taken well over 24 hours at this point broken up over several weeks, I am not exaggerating and I wish I'd kept track. It has eaten at least seven rolls of masking tape and at one point my fingers were deadass bruised from how much I was working on this thing

Wips under the cut :)

[id: three progress photos of the sculpture from above. In the first photo, the body is starting to be filled in, though lots of wire is still showing and the paper is very crumpled and scraggly. In the second photo, the body is more filled in, though the paper makes it appear thin and stretched. The final photo shows the body completed, with the tendrils starting to be filled in with paper as well. End id]

[id: a photo of the sculpture being flipped off by the artist. An explosion gif has been edited over it. End id]

[detect-thief]

RGBY - Dorm(h)ouse!!!! Looky here, The treehouse for 4 peeps of different aesthetics

Blue- for music

Green- for plants

Red- for books

Yellow- for art

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The partions is partioning, I need more of emmmmm Tsuki gimme. Shushroom not sure if this is the last post of the day. Shushroom be a nightowl.

[mjhartwork]

I made an inflatable sculpture of a hydrothermal vent, complete with tube worms and a starfish!

[k00294664]

Disrupt 19-10-23

I moved the support chair into the centre of the jaw to create a throne. This instantly made the piece more interactive and fun.

I rehung one side of the jaw to make it more even and to reinforce it. This made the form easier to discern in my opinion.

I decided to change how the teeth fit onto the jawbone. I bored holes into the sculpture and added roots to the teeth. As a result, the teeth can be pulled out and rearranged. Again, this adds another level of interactivity to the project. The loose teeth and “bandaged together” vibe of the sculpture remind me of decay and dilapidation, further linking it back to my concept of the Irish language disappearing over time after its disruption.

[industriallee]

frog

[plaguedoctoraeneas]

Hm. Do any of you have resources on making/designing a pattern for a plush? I’m. Struggling to find anything

[renjaminnifer]

i might make some traditional art attacks for artfight... i wanna do somethin new maybe

[saturn-noctua]

Little Aurelia 🥰

[camthecatchameleon]

click for better quality

closeups under the cut

[thelemonsnek]

Exploding this sculpture with my MIND

[tiktaaliker]

tape deer is finished!!! after some fiddling by trimming down the hooves and beefing up the ankles, he actually balances surprisingly well now.

+bonus angles of the beast

and (by suggestion of @wickedcitrus), the tape rolls sacrificed to the tape deer

[subrab]

Christian Marclay, Tape Fall, 1989

(via Audio Artist Christian Marclay and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon Talk Performance, Sound, and Rock & Roll | Art for Sale | Artspace)