Mysterious Machinery (Part 2)

I love cut away drawings and I thought it would be cool to do a cut-away sculpture. Using an illustration from a car repair textbook from the ’60s, I sculpted a very small but highly detailed engine and put it into the body of a 1959 Oldsmobile, a car I admired. I had a connection to a guy named John Hildebran up in Maine that I had met during my time there.  John ran a small foundry that cast stainless steel.

Cut-Away Oldsmobile (engine detail cast in stainless steel)

I sent him a number of the engine waxes to be cast in stainless. I cast the bodies of the cars in bronze at the Atelier.

In one of the magazines I had bought to work on the motorcycle piece, there were some cool cut-away drawings of motorcycle engines. I made some intricate line drawings from some of these pictures and thought it would be fun to make some T-shirts with these. Somehow I ended up at a small, local bike show with the shirts and some of my small bronzes. One of the people there was taken by my work, especially the piece that was the Caddy front end melded to my wife’s ass. He liked it but wanted to know if I could make it bigger, and use a ‘57 Chevy instead of the Caddoo. I said sure.