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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