Wasp sculpture from junk mechanical parts

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This gorgeous wasp sculpture, c.1980s by artist S. Allen, is for sale at Seattle's Great Stuff shop. It's 24" (h) x 34" (d) x 38" (w). The price is $4,500. "Centered around an industrial light bulb and hundreds of typewriter and printer parts, car door handles, sprockets and springs all assembled with fine-gauge wire; wings made from reclaimed 1/8" acrylic sheeting." Wasp Sculpture (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!)

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That’s nightmare fuel right there. Terrifying.
hadlock

This makes me want to go buy up all the VCRs at goodwill and make my own mechanical cuthulu sculpture from them
jeligula

Install a processor and RC servos and we might have a very large privacy problem. But at 24″, we could see it coming easily enough.
SKR

Is that the same artist that made the dragonfly at Barbara’s at the Brewery?
ajdv2012

see it coming easily enough
Prof.P S Sawhney “PAUL”

I take this opportunity to congratulate the artist for such a nice sculpture out of scrape.The best part out of the assemblage is that the ” Wasp Sculpture ” resembles the wasp on a very large scale.

Well done! Bravo! Keep it up.