Devils Advocates

A recent motorcycle project led me to experiment with hand forming aluminum sheet.

Once the project was finished I was eager to try the technique on something less structured. Halloween was only weeks away at the time so I set out to make masks for my wife and myself. We decided that the resulting characters were “Devils Advocates”, though we never really decided what that meant exactly.

Every element was found — scrap yards, second-hand stores, dumpsters — then cleaned, stripped, sorted and rebuilt. Found aluminum is TIG-welded and sanded seamless; nothing is cast. The electronics are salvaged from consumer devices, repaired and rewired so the piece does something when you touch it.