Manipulating 3-D scans of his own body on the computer, Mr. Dupont then marries digital fabrication methods like rapid prototyping and computer numerically controlled milling with traditional plaster casting and other laborious hand work to make figures that can appear both archaic and futuristic.
Sam Maloof, whose simple, elegant wooden furniture, which he designed and made by hand, made him a central figure in the postwar American crafts movement, died at his home in Alta Loma, Calif., on Thursday.
"There's an abiding interest in the way images move in time and space and the way in which those images are fixed and untethered from those places where they live in a given context," says Byers referring to Farmer's surrealist collage work, The Surgeon and the Photographer, which includes 365 hand-made figures made from photographs and fabric.
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The Romanian-born twins Gert and Uwe Tobias make suave assemblages that combine appropriated dishes and vases with ghoulish little hand-made figures to lighthearted effect.
The upper band of figures show Europeans in suits talking, smoking, shaking hands, making deals.
Many hands make light work.
Examples of IEDs commonly used in Nepal include socket bombs (improvised hand grenades made of galvanized pipe sockets, Figure 1), sutali bombs (small explosive devices wrapped in rope, Figure 2), and pressure cooker bombs (pressure cookers filled with explosives, Figure 3).
The 30 objects on display include an array of flashlights with diverse designs from the 1940s to the 1990s, a 19th-century textile panel with instructions for making hand-shadow figures and the 1940s Silver Streak glass iron from the Corning Glass Works.
