One of kids’ movies’ favorite characters, This Minion is a small and super-charming sculpture with a lot of details, crafted by Fernando Leon with recycled metals.
Each piece is entirely hand-crafted with Recycled Metal pieces, the artist uses engine parts from cars and motorbikes, nuts and bolts, spark plugs, nails, chains, basically everything found in a junkyard. Pieces are welded, and each detail is meticulously taken care of for achieving unique and attractive pieces.
- This piece can also include a business card holder and a pen stand if desired.
Details:
This piece is currently not in stock. Once your order is processed, the artisan will receive an order to produce a replica of the item you ordered. Given the handcrafted and artistic nature of their pieces, your purchase may have some variation in decoration and shape. It is these same variations that make every item unique.
Elaboration times range from 15-25 days.
Measurements:
5.59" high x 2.72" wide x 0.08" long
Weight:
0.77 lbs
Scrap metals lie in large supply around the world, and with these large amounts of them, it was only a matter of time before creative people could find ways to repurpose and use them as canvas for inspiring artistic interpretations.
From junkyards, welding and mechanic workshops, these creative artisans envision the concept for their works by observation and study of each piece they get their hands on.
After gathering the parts, they need to fulfill the amazing concepts they envision, they start de-rusting or de-greasing each one of the parts depending on the materials they are going to use, all to make sure that the metals truthfully express through their textures and shapes what the artisan wants to represent.
Depending on the nature of the concept for the piece, some parts are then sanded, cut or smeared to obtain the right amount of polish sought for the representation of the piece.
Once every component selected for the piece has been properly treated and adapted, the welding process commences, and one by one, the sometimes thoroughly selected pieces start becoming elements of a bigger whole concept.
After the welding process is over and some extra cleaning is done to remove any remaining soot or dust, artisans apply lacquer coatings of different tones that help unifying the colors, tones and textures of the metal pieces.
In the end, artisans achieve a bigger representation, a masterful interpretation of reality or fantasy magically interpreted through common materials usually set aside, but that in the right hands, can become never-ending sources of inspiration.
