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I Made Masks And Faces From Reclaimed Materials
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I Made Masks And Faces From Reclaimed Materials

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After cleaning up the beach on holiday, I was left with a pile of driftwood and random things like bottle caps and rusty nails. Rather than toss it all, I started playing with it and made some face like sculptures. When the holidays were over, I started combing the streets for lack of beach and made more. And now I’m selling them.

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    This is Kai. The only one in this post that is from that beach holiday

    Carob. I don’t always have a good reason for naming them

    When my grandfather passed I inherited a box with thousands of little nails. Only 7593 to go

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    This is how Carob started. How most start. By balancing pieces in a pile

    This is Cell. It’s made from an old wood block toy for kids. It’s named after that silly antenna that makes this dude like a cellphone that can only dial 666

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    Teeth. I have lots of them. Well, had. I’m starting to run out

    Deciding on what it really should be takes some time. It’s three dimensional sketching

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    Or rather, I’m just playing with kids blocks. The way the toy was intended

    Reducing helps as I usually start with way too much. I’m a kid inside still, I guess?

    This is Harvey. Harvey Dent. Go figure

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    As much as these things have a vibe of grotesqueness, I feel that keeping an element of abstraction makes them stronger

    This is how Harvey Dent was conceived. Not that sexy

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    Plague

    Part decorative furniture pieces, part BBQ skewers, part goats jaw

    Took me a while to brush these teeth. I’m dead serious

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    More rubberbands to keep more piles in place

    Here was a random idea. I have a bunch of pan holders that never seem to fit into any project. Just like here. Whatever

    Pred. My girlfriend doesn’t like this one. She thinks it looks like a sample in a showroom for decorative bathroom tiles

    I made teeth out of clay, years ago and without purpose. Until I combined them with seashells, red ink and wood glue and baked the whole thing in the oven. I love experimenting with materials

    Maybe one day Bionade will sponsor me. I dig their bottle cap design. And their lemonade

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    Souvlaki. Don’t ask why. Probably just a craving

    There is this tree in Greece that drops seeds and the shells are like eyes. Why I only took home two is beyond me

    In retrospect I might prefer this sketch

    Tigres. Also made from a building blocks kids toy. I tried using up all the blocks of the set at once

    Here is the toy as I found it. With the little pull cart that the blocks were in

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    My initial idea was to animate these blocks in stop motion and make the face talk. But the need for a more physical challenge won

    Out of the box. I go through at least 35-40 combinations before I get a hint of what I’m seeking. There’s no real plan. Ever

    Decided on a direction I get heavy on the glue

    And then attack it with tools. I was really not feeling this in the beginning. It looked silly to me

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    But beauty is in the eye of the tiger. I managed to find peace with it

    This is my fav angle. The red circles are the wheels of the toy

    I added some olive seeds, painted white and cut down to form teeth

    And as always, old nail polish for color accents

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    Henk Loorbach

    Henk Loorbach

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    I’m a director with a background in art, based in Amsterdam. I make commercials, music videos, and other cool things. I like rum, sun, discounts, and strange stuff.

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    Henk Loorbach

    Henk Loorbach

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    I’m a director with a background in art, based in Amsterdam. I make commercials, music videos, and other cool things. I like rum, sun, discounts, and strange stuff.

    Titas Burinskas

    Titas Burinskas

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    This dude right here? He works as a Community Manager at Bored Panda. Has no back-story, cause his spine works just fine. He writes about himself in third-person, and in first-person about others. Fell in love with storytelling and cannot let that love go. Now, he's here to help you make your own story simply beautiful. Secretly makes cute music samples and writes stories in the dark that nobody has ever heard of before.

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    Titas Burinskas

    Titas Burinskas

    Moderator, Community member

    This dude right here? He works as a Community Manager at Bored Panda. Has no back-story, cause his spine works just fine. He writes about himself in third-person, and in first-person about others. Fell in love with storytelling and cannot let that love go. Now, he's here to help you make your own story simply beautiful. Secretly makes cute music samples and writes stories in the dark that nobody has ever heard of before.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you like these masks, you might like these too: https://www.boredpanda.com/i-rediscovered-a-box-of-pink-painted-scrap-wood-and-it-only-took-a-global-lockdown-to-finally-do-what-i-had-intended-to-do-with-them-7-years-ago/

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you like these masks, you might like these too: https://www.boredpanda.com/i-rediscovered-a-box-of-pink-painted-scrap-wood-and-it-only-took-a-global-lockdown-to-finally-do-what-i-had-intended-to-do-with-them-7-years-ago/

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you like these masks, you might like these too: https://www.boredpanda.com/i-rediscovered-a-box-of-pink-painted-scrap-wood-and-it-only-took-a-global-lockdown-to-finally-do-what-i-had-intended-to-do-with-them-7-years-ago/

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you like these masks, you might like these too: https://www.boredpanda.com/i-rediscovered-a-box-of-pink-painted-scrap-wood-and-it-only-took-a-global-lockdown-to-finally-do-what-i-had-intended-to-do-with-them-7-years-ago/

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