Giant Kinetic Praying Mantis Sculpture from found materials

Step 5 Head

In the research phase of this project I looked at a lot of photos of Praying Mantis's. They have very small heads relative to their bodies, and nearly all of this small area is taken up by their eyes. I wanted my sculpture to maintain a likeness to the actual creature but still convey a lot of character. This would mean the Sci-Fi inspired trick of evil glowing red eyes. I selected some brass wide angle peep holes from apartment doors. With a single small LED placed behind the lens I got the effect I wanted. They were then mounted via black plastic into the bag attachment portion of old Kirby vacuum cleaners.

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[sculptur]

this thing is so cool i wish i were as good of a sculptor as you