Harrison

Harrison is a bright a bubbly character who has a spring in his step.He is great with numbers and is looking for someone to 'gauge' a no pressure relationship.

I started making robots to broaden my range of sculpting to settle to argument function over design. These robots are purely for design and a non functional sculptures. I still stuck to upcycling because..in my eyes robots are Industrial and kind of 

You may be thinking about the names and the personality and looking at my with a head tilt and guilty look for thinking I'm a little crazy... But they are made as characters, as personalities and as little companants all jumbled into one thing which builds a profile, an age and a story. 

I collected all these parts from a college building that was being knocked down, the old moto machanics building where they just leave things that holo get have a use or has been outdated. I took these pieces because they had qualities to them, I don't feel I need to sketch out my ideas most of the times because I already have an image of how it's going to look in my head or an artists reference I look upon. I see these pieces and familiarise myself to the image I have set to make or the theme I have set myself and know that that could be a head or a waist. I take stud because of the chuckles or the spring because they are astectically pleasing to me, the numbers on the gages or the tightness of the curves on the springs just the sheer metal or the sketches will raise my mood and get me excited for an idea I've had for months or thought or last night. 

I respond to materials not ideas. I'm a realist and know that if I create ideas I could not have the materials for then I will be waiting for a while.  

I chose to place these materials in this way because they are recognisable, such as the pressure gage reminds me of two eyes and a nose or very round mouth, the spring that came from the old machanics building too and made great bounching legs for the character. The black box which is from a car, (i think someone called it a spark box, or battery), made a great body for the characyer to hold onto. 
Ichose to keep the orgional design with no arms because its more humble and the battery wasnt gret for screwing things into, once i had placed the legs on, the springs kept leaning forward because the head was so heavy and the bodys  wight went with the head so it had to be screwed into the wood base to keep the weight at the bottom. 

I love this new section to my portfolio and experiment and continue to make bettre and maybe even bigger bots.