On October 2017, while visiting Toronto. I finally had the chance of testing a 3doodler 3d pen. Armed with 200 strands of Polar White ABS plastic, I set out to freehand draw a 3d pen sketch of a skull. Even after a couple of years of not using any 3d pens (or sculpting, really), this sculpture took me 6 hours, 50 strands of plastic and one 3doodler pen. My hands are...
1715 is a steel sculpture located in the city of Ath, in Belgium. This sculpture was commissioned to honor the 300th anniversary of a local legend named Madame Goliath and as a public monument at the Triennale de l’Art et du Vegetal, in June 2015. 1,200 kilos of steel sheets were used to create this sculpture, which was welded at the Academie Royale des Beaux...
Bronze sculpture cast by Riikc in Soignies, Belgium. Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you have to die’. Sold to a private collection in Brussels, Belgium. Process detailed below: The original materials used to create a bronze sculpture can be anything, as long as they burn well and leave no trace. In this case, I sculpted a wooden...
After a few weeks of testing 3d pens, an idea came to me: What if I turned ABS to Bronze with the lost wax casting process? The first step towards this feat was to find a piece that would turn into a glorious sculpture or get destroyed in the process. The winning object was a red ABS plastic heart I had sketched days before: ABS to Bronze — Step 2 Sprues were to be...
