Blue Whale commission (2015)
Plywood, steel hardware, paint/stain.
16’ length, suspended via steel cable in a private office lobby in West Los Angeles.
Commissioned by MoFilm, a film production company, as a lobby feature. A wooden blue whale intended to span the space and double as a light fixture. The whale was designed and fabricated at my studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico in two parts and re-assembled on site.
The design and process was based on early natural history museum methods for creating blue whale displays. Those vintage giant models were wrapped in a final skin; this whale was left as structure, to preserve the open airy light quality of the space. The process was 100% analog; for everything from models to final piece, no digital fabrication was used.
16’ length, suspended via steel cable in a private office lobby in West Los Angeles.
Commissioned by MoFilm, a film production company, as a lobby feature. A wooden blue whale intended to span the space and double as a light fixture. The whale was designed and fabricated at my studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico in two parts and re-assembled on site.
The design and process was based on early natural history museum methods for creating blue whale displays. Those vintage giant models were wrapped in a final skin; this whale was left as structure, to preserve the open airy light quality of the space. The process was 100% analog; for everything from models to final piece, no digital fabrication was used.
WHALE-MAKING:
