this is the video for you,
they are the work of artist Penny Thomson who in her Derbyshire studio with her daughter Briony, works with papier-mâché, which
she began experimenting with when her children were still young. “Using
pulp, laminated and household waste paper, and cardboard, I made a seven-foot
giraffe and conducted a workshop in my son’s school, which involved all the
pupils in making a 14-foot Diplodocus,” she says, after creating a diorama for illusionist Sam
Drake’s House
of Magic, she became fascinated with automata and combined skills she
acquired over her career to develop the mechanical miniatures. Briony adds,
“That is why we say that a batch of two or three kinetic sculptures usually
take between one week and 40 years to make!” Each miniature
figure incorporates a mechanism with a small handle that sets it in
motion, giving life to hungry chicks, impatient zebras, and joyous penguins, Thomson
regularly releases small batches of sculptures in her Etsy shop, and you can see her new work on Instagram,
and on her website, they seem so simple, but having looked at the
video again they seem so realistic, amazing!
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