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Discussion over an Egg, 2009


Long Legged Beast with child, 2009


Antlered Beast, 2009

Set of new ceramic monsters made by Eva Funderburgh, presently on display in Port Townsend, Washington.
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A soñar!

Travel Inspiration: The Lorraine Mondial Air Balloon Rally

Different land

Strawberry birds are the first sign of a sweet summer ahead!
Super sweet, mildy creepy, and slightly cannibalistic, strawberry birds are ready to fly into your home. The listing is for one little strawberry bird. Each one is about 3" high, and made of soft wool felt and pipe cleaner. There are four of them right now, so you'll be sent one of the ones pictured above.

Not a toy, not for children. Don't try to eat them, they bite. Hard.




I made this house special for Baba Yaga, so that she will not be angry with me. To make her happy, I covered the front and back in her coveted blue roses. I hope she likes it...
This chicken-legged shack is approximately 7" tall, and made of soft felt.
It does stand on its own, it's a wee bit wobbly, but can be picked up and set back down again sturdily.
This item is most certainly not for children. Those little wire claws are sharp.
The listing is for the square-shaped house shown only.

Each house is entirely hand-sewn, so yours may vary slightly from the one pictured - variances are extremely slight however and are mostly in regard to the placement of the embroidery stitching.

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Ay, qué mala es la soledad!

Ah! El sol

y mi gata, Bruma, en la ventana. Cuánta paz!

Amigas

Agatha the Pirate

Creepy Cyberpunk Fantasies Come to Life

This model was handcrafted from found antique mechanical parts, including a vintage Singer sewing attachment. Though Conte prefers to use existing parts rather than build each model from the ground up, he has to make sure each preconstructed piece stays true to his original vision.

"When I found this, I knew it was the body of a bug," Conte said. "All I had to do was build the legs."



Conte's skull casts depict clockworklike internal mechanics of the brain, a concept he picked up during a drawing course on human anatomy at Pratt Institute. He worked closely with his instructor to create casts and make molds from dissected cadavers for use in classroom lectures.

"I love early medical diagrams by da Vinci that show cross sections of skulls, so I began working on that idea, casting skulls in bronze," Conte said.



Each work of art can take Conte as long as two months to build, even if a central body part is derived from a vintage mechanical part, like the partial Swatch wristband incorporated into this design. Although his pieces often run upward of $2,000 each, Conte estimates that, given the amount of time he invests into building each piece, it works out to 15 cents an hour for a given sculpture.

"I've been doing this sort of work since college, but never at this level of intricacy, this level of craftsmanship," he said.


By Jenna Wortham, Photo: Amanda Dutton, Synesthesia Photo, courtesy of Christopher Conte