Another epic discovery over at Lost at E Minor today was their recently featured emerging artist that goes by one name, Jim. While the name is nondescript his work certainly is not. He creates skull-based works that incorporate fibers, found object like tea bags, what looks like plastic cording, paint, etc. I can’t even really tell in some pictures what he’s working with!
I also am not sure if he uses actual skulls — I imagine not, but rather he has a mold for an armature that he prefers…but as this is sort of a cryptic artisan altogether I’m not going to say anything for sure.
The above has the skull covered in sort of glossy rock — like a morbid mosaic of sorts. I don’t know — I really like them if you just don’t think too hard and just think of the skull as a great shape.
I love the black and white one above — it’s interesting how Jim presses the extra materials to the skull — I wonder what sort of epoxy he’s working with. Honestly, a big part of why I’m into this is because of the cow skull my brother and I made my mom for Christmas. More on that at a later date but suffice it to say we took that skull up a notch and matched it to her office.
I highly recommend checking out Jim’s site and looking at all of the wonderful images he has up there — he’s quite prolific. These colored ones appear to be based in a sort of hemp-like rope or cording. He did a whole color series, ROY G BIV-style.
I can’t even imagine how heavy that would be — I also am not sure of the scale of these but I do know I like them! I made some assumptions based on the skulls being life-sized but again…not sure on that. All I know is that Jim has lived in many places in the world including Australia and New Zealand and Paris — as he says in his short and irregular bio, “contemporary art, African, Oceanian, Amerindian, popular, religious…multiple passions and a melting pot of influences.”