Sunil Hall

The evolution of my Flying Machines.

I first started thinking about a machine which raised and flexed a mechanical set of wings while watching a really great documentary called The Life of Birds.

This first piece Flying Machine No.1 is more of a proof of concept prototype than a finished piece. At the time I was still learning to solder as the sloppy joins show. The piece is made of copper wire and tubing and stands about 6 inched tall. Sorry about the poor quality, my digital camera isn’t the best…

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Here are a couple of fish I made in Lydia’s ceramic class at the Da Center for the Arts. I havent really used ceramics before. Here I was playing around to see what the medium is like. The first is a city growing tumor-like out of the side of a dead fish. I used a high grit heavy body sculpting clay. The glazes are low fire.

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I made this piece for the Metals in Motion exhibition held at the Oakland Museum of California by the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild of which I am a member. Here is an excerpt from the artist’s statement I wrote for the show:

This Flying Machine is the second out of a continuing series that explore human manipulation of nature. They honor nature by mimicking its beauty, yet mock it with their obvious artifice. Here the user gives the long extinct fish flight. It is absurd and futile yet beautiful. At once a part of and apart from nature, like all human works.

I’m working on shooting some decent videos of my mechanical sculptures. You don’t really get he whole effect without the movement. For now here are some photographs shot by my brother Kushal on the roof of his apartment building.

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Here are a few of my drawings from the last show I worked on. Some of the most fun I had on the show involved designing cool machines and then blowing them up!

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I made these mobiles back in 04. They are made from basswood and painted with acrylics. At the time I was working as a Prop designer on My Life as a Teenage Robot. You can see how the art deco and 1920′s cartoon influences of that show spilled over in to my personal work.

We have been picked up for a second season! We are on every Saturday at 10:30am (9:30am central) on Nickelodeon.

Check out our Flickr gallery here:

http://www.sunilhall.com/wedding/

Wow! There is actually content on my webpage again! Im going with a blog format this time. Hopefully this will be easier and quicker to update and keep track of my different projects. The layout is pretty boring right now. Im still deciding if I’m going to stick with wordpress. Maybe it will get a bit more personalized in the future.