Sunday, April 6, 2008

Ricky Swallow's BMX sculpture


This piece looks as if Ricky has just gone out and purchased an old school BMX bike and painted it all white. Alhtough I do believe that this particualr piece of artwork was made using a type of mold to construct/scultpt all of the various different components of the BMX bike. What I mean is that I beleive that each part was indiviually molded in a rubber or plastic mold like sections such as the wheels and the main frame supporting majority of the riders weight form a type of clay and painted white. It could also be said that Swallow used big blocks of clay and carve out each of the components.

Although it could be said that possibly certian attributes such as the handels and the protector and seat of this sculpture can be associated with plastic. This is just a passing observation but it is most likely that Swallow has used a clay or clay like sustance in this scultputre. Although the rims on the wheels could be made of steel as it would be extrely hard to carve them out of clay and for them to keep their shape.

Which ever materials are used It looks as if the majority of this sculpture is solid and is successful at depicting all elements of a real life BMX bicycle.

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