Jud Turner's Lotus Eaters sculpture: media will consume itself

Sculptor Jud Turner writes, "My latest sculpture, 'Lotus Eaters', was inspired by characters from Homer's Odyssey. The Lotophagi (lotus eaters) feed on a soporific plant which causes them to forget their homelands and live apathetic, uncaring lives. Their diet causes them to be sleepy and languid, as well as disinterested in the world around them. — Read the rest

Shiny Fu dog assemblage sculptures

Sculptor Jud Turner (previously) sez, "My childhood friend recently commissioned me to a pair of traditional Chinese Fu Dogs, which symbolize protection. He's of Chinese descent, recently bought a house in the suburbs, and said 'I want my kids to know more about their heritage, and I want to scare my neighbors!' — Read the rest

"Hive" (middle class colony collapse)


Jud Turner writes, "'Hive (middle class colony collapse)' is the latest in my series of sculptures depicting hallucinatory factory scenes, and ponders the loss of bees and an ever-shrinking middle class, both likely results of modern industrial methods and monopoly capitalism."

Hellishly complex, gorgeous assemblage about endless work


"Quaestus" is the latest assemblage from sculptor Jud Turner. He sez,

"Quaestus" is a latin word meaning "gain or profit extracted from work", a concept darkly represented in my latest sculpture: 5 tiny employees are trapped in an endless task inside a gigantic machine, toiling to keep up with the conveyor belts they are walking on.

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Greedy anglerfish sculpture for a banker


"Avaritia" is a new mixed-media assemblage from Jud Turner: "The name is taken from the Latin term for 'greed' and the bait this mechanized angler fish is using is a coin from 1799. Heightening my enjoyment of the subject (greed) it's a commission for a German financier!" — Read the rest

Thor's goat made out of scrap metal


Sculptor Jud Turner writes, "I thought you might enjoy this full-sized goat,
'Tanngrisnir', named after one of the two goats in Norse mythology
that pulled Thor's chariot. He ate them for dinner every night,
saved the bones, and by morning they had come back to life. — Read the rest

Heavily armed trees fight it out

Jud Turner sez, "'Duel Nature' is my latest 'Impossible Flying Machine' sculpture. It's about the unnatural act of war-making, expressed by heavily arming 2 trees; it's also about the fact that much of what appears to be pastoral nature is also a war between plants for sunlight and nutrients played out very slowly." — Read the rest