I started the blog in
2006, which was still the heyday of blogs, when people were still
excited about publishing more than 140 characters. I thought I would
post some wire objects and make some coffee money. At the time I was a
baker. I had been in commercial photography, but had quit that a few
years earlier because of my dislike of the whole process.
One day I was walking through the park and a giant hand came down from the clouds and pointed its index finger at me. I pulled the finger towards myself until a deep, angry sound rumbled through the atmosphere. That was quite an interesting day, but had nothing to do with the idea of Bent Objects. Basically, wire is very cheap, and ordinary objects are very cheap. Combining those two things together in a way that amuses me is fun and isn’t stressful like some other creative endeavors which cost lots of money for materials.
My creative process is as follows:
(a) Look at an object.
(b) What does the object remind me of? What kind of character does it have?
(c) Add a bit of wire to bring it to life.
(d) Photograph it in a way that communicates my idea to the viewer.
I’m not always trying to be funny. That isn’t the case at all. Because of the size of my materials and what they are, the end products are always seen in a humorous way, and there seems to be no way to get around that. Also, I’m not a serious person at all, and that shows in my work even if I’m not trying to “be funny”. It’s probably all for the best, because the humor, whether I’m striving for it to exist or not, has led people to share my work, and I’m not going to tell people how they should interpret it.
Little polish girl
McDonalds as Sculpture Materials
Yeah, this is where those come from
Dancing Queens
English breakfast
Sylvia Muffin put her head in the oven.
The introvert
Bananas in bed – let’s slip into bed together
You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto. You Say Potatoes, I say Zombies.
Fruit with life experience
Zombies are nuts about brains
Modest pear
Literary interpretations
Paper training our little dog, Frank
A little cat doodle
Photo Credits: Terry Border at Bent Objects
