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Piece 29 / 50Creatures2016 · Oakland, California
Megalodon
TitleMegalodon
Year2016
Dimensions192" x 97" x 48"
CategoryCreatures, Inner Worlds, Large Scale
StatusIn a collection
Made inOakland, California
The story
Found, cleaned, sorted, welded, wired.
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.
IN MOTION
Megalodon · running2016
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Parts list
What it used to be
Everything in this piece had a previous life. Nemo’s own inventory, in his words.
The main object used in this piece was a wing mounted fuel tank from an F-94 bomber plane (see image in slideshow). Many aspects (finsstandmechanical components) were made from scratch. Countless other salvaged household and industrial items were repurposed in the final composition (soup spoonsvacuum tubesmassage motoraircraft componentspower tools etc.)
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