Homunculus

This is another look at a favorite theme of mine: little people operating big people.

Here we see a tiny vacuum tube headed engineer at work in the brass bowels of a wooden beast. Be sure and check the video to see the range of motion.

Every element was found — scrap yards, second-hand stores, dumpsters — then cleaned, stripped, sorted and rebuilt. Found aluminum is TIG-welded and sanded seamless; nothing is cast. The electronics are salvaged from consumer devices, repaired and rewired so the piece does something when you touch it.