Waste Deep

This was the title piece for my Artist in Residence show at the San Francisco Dump.

I wanted to make another large scale sea monster to contend with my Giant Squid sculpture.

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.