Empty
Made with Australian empties.
Medium: Sculpture - Aluminium cans and bike parts.
Size: 400m square.
The first image is of complete sculpture manipulated digitally. The single guy has been squeezed out of shape due to children playing with him like a doll. He stands 300mm tall. Select larger thumbnails to enlarge.
posted by Anonymous at 1:08 am
49 Comments:
In Australia we call an empty can an 'empty'.
That's awesome, Anonymous !
Too bad you couldn't return those soda pop cans for 10 cent refunds. You'd be rich !
At least I think those are pop cans...
Hmmmmmm.
Some are soda pop cans for grown ups only Steve :)
nice take of the topic! is it kinda hard to come up with this illustration?
is this a photo or an illo? i couldn't tell the difference ;oP very fancy indeed
BRILLIANT:D!!!! lmao....love the sculpture sincerely, and love that you've utilized the backbone of auzzie culture!
p.s. i do believe oz has the biggest beers i've ever seen....i can't believe you can actually go to the pub and order a victoria bitter that size...heaven!
cheers,
kerry
Thanks for your comments Isay and Knottydon, not difficult to illustrate 'empty'; photographed a sculpture and played around with it in Photoshop :)
Heeehe Kerry - cheers :)
interesting take, well executed!
Fantastically witty :) I love the figure - can imagine it animated - it actually puts me in mind of sportsmen plastered in corporate sponsors logos. Wouldn't it be great if you could get brewery sponsorship lol .....
E
How much blood did you lose during the sculpture phase? Very inspiring work. Never tried photographing art to make more art.
Thank you for commenting unknown visiting Anonymous :)
These are indeed modelled on fine male specimens Monkeypaints. Think friends would also think it would be great if I got a brewery sponsorship lol :)
No blood James, have nimble fingers from floristry wiring skills which is how the cans were combined :)
interesting :O)
Brilliant as per usual, Anon. So if I keep drinking beer you'll be in a position to accept my empties - I couldn't think of a greater incentive if that was the case (or slab). All the VB (very best).
Detlef
http://www.detlefjumpertz.com
Pleased you find interest RebeccaShane :)
To be accepted as brilliant is not to be rejected Detlef :) A Tooheys Old only drinker myself, you are very welcome to consume VB (very big) amounts towards my sculpture creations. I need twenty cans per figure, don't drink them all at once VB (vicious bastard).
As always I am amazed by your work. This one is very fun! I love the idea of it and it is executed beautifully. Wonderful!
Very cool idea. I think if those were in stores, people would buy them!
Mark Stinson
www.comixscene.com
These are awsome and v. aussie to boot!! I love the VB right on the chest :)
Hey!
What more can i say other than this is a very cool illustration! Love the compostion and idea ;)
http://mustashrik.blogspot.com
Really teriffic! I love that you are recyling and also that you let "Play" happen. I used to gather all our plastic milk jugs and just before recycle day I would hot glue them all together like some wierd animal or man. The guys on the pick up truck were always soooo careful when they took "it" away.
Very cool idea !!
Heeehee, yes fun JacqueLynn - although my family didn't think so in the process because they were sent out on many excursions re demands for finding an orange can, or green one etc. Guess our neighbourhood looked tidy at the time though :)
Think their price wouldn't be so cool Mark, nice idea though :)
You were STILL awake at 1.30am Katherine? Email me next time if you get bored - thanks for the comment, Aussie is VB (very best) :)
Thanks Mustashrik, maybe my fine male specimens can dance with your harlequin :)
Hheeee Ginger Pixels, I have a few recycled toy sculptures around to play with. Cheruboy makes milk container monsters although I have never watched out to see how the garbage men treat them - hilarious!!!
Thanks for your comment Rowentree :)
hi! my new blog addy is coffee81-studio.blogspot.com
ok..bad news...not wrking. i'll use back the old one. sori
I love these sculptures. Completely imaginative and original.
Thanks MBC Design and Cynische for your positive comments :)
Hope things are sorted Coffee81 ... do you like my sculptures?
I often feel empty after I empty a few...
Hey glad you liked the print! I'm new to mailing prints, so I was hoping the cardboard would be enough. I didn't want to put it in tube then you'd have to flaten it out. I should probably bag them also, in case of water damage.
Alcohol can have that effect Anthony :(
The cardboard is perfect. If I post during foreboding/bad weather I put the cardboard slices in a clear shopping bag. I also use a bubble envelope if posting multiples Size 7 is good.
So everyone knows what we are jabbering about - I am a proud owner of one of Anthony's prints :)
Found at http://awcomix.blogspot.com/2005/07/new-stuff.html
Your sculptures are...wow, I don't know what to say...cool doesn't seem quite enough. It's pretty amazing what you've created with empty cans! The standing fellow looks like a motorcycle racer. I think the digital works are brilliant as well...what a very neat interpretation of empty!
I'm not sure what to saw except "wow".
ive been waiting for a good topic for me to pull out my fave 3d sculpture i created back in high school and still to this day love dearly! hopefully i get to use it soon so i can show you guys. i love these guys those. i love how all the different can art gives him more life and color. right on.
What a creative use of empty cans. Your digital version of the sculpture is quite amazing.
The standing guy does look like a motorcycle racer Carla. Must be the huge amount of drink sponsors written on his outfit and helmet shaped head :)
Thanks Janey! Chacha, glad you noticed the time spent choosing specific cans for right places to add interest :) Happy the digital version is to your liking Anj:)
OOOOO! Very cool!
Just incredible work!
sorry for asking you something not related to ur work...just need some help here...Does anyone know any website that teaches Corel Painter?
Fosters has so many, many uses!
i had to look twice... great idea, i love recycled things!
Glad you ooooo cool, incredible and love Fern Lady, Aravis Arwen and Vfn4 :)
I use Photoshop Coffee81. Maybe you should ask on a forum somewhere?
Many, many, many Tony. This is just one of them :)
These might be related to my tin man and are similarly empty :).
Someone got full to empty those cans! I really like the thought that you've put into the arrangement and symmetry of the cans/colours in the figures. Somehow they remind me of Olympic cyclists - the colours and logos on a form-fitting suit - maybe it's partly the wheels in the first one.
Brilliant and inspired!
quite clever. :)
great sculpture. It looks like it was labor intensive.
wow.. very original!! great conceptualization! so whats the inspiration behind this wonderful work of art?
There must be an Australian unconscious echo of imagery reverberating the country Ian T. :)
Weeks and weeks intensive Amy :)
Good question Atomicvelvetsigh! The inspiration was a challenge to create a sculpture made from one material only, including method of joining. Australia had the Olympics which probably played a part in visual concept :)
The empty sculptue is amazing.
That sculpture is awsome :-)
this is brilliant work.
Hah, amazing, awsome and brilliant - thanks Kim, Jeroen and Anonymous :)
WOW! What an exciting project! How very cool! I love it, great colors and form. How fun!
Great fun to make!
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