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Exodus to Texas detail three by *kuksi:iconkuksi:

Categories Traditional Art > Sculpture > Surreal

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Exodus to Texas
Mixed media assemblage
6.75" H x 6" W x 16" D
2009

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:iconxrosesxrulex:
~xrosesxrulex Jun 4, 2009, 7:05:29 PM
I've been curious the entire I've been watching you. When you say that it's mixed media, what do you mean? Do you find figurines and use then, or do you sculpt most of it? How do you do it, if you don't mind revealing your secret to me?

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Photography, Drawing, and Writing are what I love creating/doing. Music=Inspiration.

Go check out my gallery and give me luffs! :excited:

-Rose
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*broken-art-attack Jun 4, 2009, 7:13:13 PM
it would appear that he primarily cannibalizes a great number of model kits (people, vehicles, train set figurines) and sometimes supplements them with fabrics or doilies for certain textures on the skulls/skeletons... then he airbrushes them to achieve some sort of homogeneity with regards to color (although some pieces are shaded differently at times).

that's my guess anyway.

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“Don’t waste your time or time will waste you.“
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*broken-art-attack Jun 4, 2009, 7:13:56 PM
"For God and country..."

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“Don’t waste your time or time will waste you.“
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~xrosesxrulex Jun 4, 2009, 7:16:33 PM
Oh, wow. Well, that really does explain things. Sounds involved enough. I like the process.

Thanks. I feel...enlightened.

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Photography, Drawing, and Writing are what I love creating/doing. Music=Inspiration.

Go check out my gallery and give me luffs! :excited:

-Rose
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~JanuaryCorporate Jun 4, 2009, 8:26:46 PM
Yup, it seems most of his work is a lot of small kit parts ranging from everything and anything. The only thing I do wonder is some of the detail on the models is quite good. You can see that in this shot, certain things like this model of a man, can't be from at least a train kit (as I collect them). Either way it is always amazing.

Back to the point, the composition of this picture is amazing, and I absolutely love the how the man is carrying chains. Even more amazing when you see the size of his pieces.
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*broken-art-attack Jun 4, 2009, 9:41:01 PM
well, it is a guess after all... not incredibly complicated, but tedious in the extreme (i would imagine). however, knowing how something is done and actually being able to do it are two entirely different things. Mr. Kuksi has a gift of taking the mundane, the ordinary, and making something extraordinary. The pieces required to build these objects are, in and of themselves, already established symbols charged with meaning; I feel that Mr. Kuksi twists and mangles them into something... even more powerful. ominous things, monuments to our folly... or at least, that's what i see.

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“Don’t waste your time or time will waste you.“
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~xrosesxrulex Jun 5, 2009, 4:38:22 AM
I completely agree with you. He's putting whole new levels to what the pieces originally meant. He's manipulating them to his liking and not showing any remorse for that.
It's amazing how much detail they all have, and he shows them fairly regularly, so he must put a ton of time into these.
So, I respect Kuksi because of his patience and attention to detail. His work is amazing and that's why I'm watching him.

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Photography, Drawing, and Writing are what I love creating/doing. Music=Inspiration.

Go check out my gallery and give me luffs! :excited:

-Rose
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~BlackList-Artist Jun 5, 2009, 12:37:04 PM
This is an example of how your art has pieces within it. I mean, your sculptures have seperate tiny artistic statements within them.

How do you get these done so quickly?

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"A Willow whisp I wonder went, And where were Willow Whisped?"
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*broken-art-attack Jun 6, 2009, 11:18:36 PM
agreed. his work may be provocative (not always a good thing if the sole purpose is to provoke), but i also find it challenging in a potentially productive way. anything that compels me to have a dialogue of substance (whether internal or external) is worth my time.

i may never be able to afford a piece of his work, but the power lies not within an object, but in the ideas it germinates.

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“Don’t waste your time or time will waste you.“
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