Vegetable Sculptures
I've always loved vegetables. Even as a young child, one of my favorite foods was green onion. It's really a bummer that my sensitive stomach sometimes limits my enjoyment of them... it's funny how something always gets in the way of a potentially healthy habit!
Recently I decided that it would be fun to capture the beauty of raw fruits and vegetables by 3D scanning their forms and created sculptures from the CAD data. I don't really modify the shapes much at all, other than to scale them up and make them more easy to manufacture - I find them beautiful as-is! Once the form is finalized, they're then printed on one of my FDM machines, polished up a bit, and sent out for casting and patina.
Recently I decided that it would be fun to capture the beauty of raw fruits and vegetables by 3D scanning their forms and created sculptures from the CAD data. I don't really modify the shapes much at all, other than to scale them up and make them more easy to manufacture - I find them beautiful as-is! Once the form is finalized, they're then printed on one of my FDM machines, polished up a bit, and sent out for casting and patina.
I made a bunch of bronze walnuts of various sizes
Large bronze walnut, made from the same CAD as the smaller pieces (but hollowed out and cast in pieces). On this one I kept the FDM support base and used it to create a stainless steel casting to support the piece and keep it vertical.
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Walnuts after some polishing, on an awesome stainless steel dish
Bronze Yuzu. We grow these rare (in the US at least) Japanese fruit in our garden. Truly delicious!
This bronze pear is about 2.5x typical size, and was created via lost "wax" process directly from an FDM print
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Buckeye. Raw bronze casting without patina, actual size
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Bell pepper. Polished and patina, 2.5x actual size
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Giant bell pepper, inspired by one grown by yours truly. Looks oddly like a molar tooth!
Life is full of "small potatoes" that can easily distract and annoy, but I'm doing my best to stay focused on the big ones: health, family, and friends. I made this giant bronze potato with that thought in mind -- here's to a great remainder of 2017 and beyond!
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My first stainless steel veggie: garlic. One of my all time favorites both as a sculpture and as a flavor. Maybe a (small) part of the reason I stayed single throughout highschool?
Large gourd with green patina. Similar in scale to the large potato; this one weighs about 40lb.
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Who doesn't love avocado toast? Have you ever tried making it with a 15lb bronze avocado, with a perfectly ripe patina? Delicious!
Donut peach, at ~3x scale
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Giant asparagus! These were cast solid, and weight around 5 pounds each.
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The cocoa pod embodies my love for chocolate! It's about 1.5' long, cast in bronze with a beautiful patina.
Giant asparagus - about 6.5' tall!
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Bright red heirloom tomato, about 2.5x size (8" or so diameter).
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"Evan and the large-but-not-so-giant (bronze) peach." Have yet to write the book...
Asparagus and mushrooms... it's what's for dinner! Suggestions welcome for the next giant veggie to add to the patch!
Stay tuned for more pieces in this series -- and send over a comment with any new vegetable suggestions!