He has been delivered and will be on display at the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History, which is the newest building of the Ouadrangle. The exhibit, Steampunk Springfield will open March 22nd. There will be many of Springfield's historic icons in steampunk style, and over at the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum there will be a steampunk fashion exhibit. So if your local you might want to go down and check it out. If you visit before May first you can vote on your favorite one.
Our cat is around five feet tall, and an assembledge of wood, metal,sculpting materials, and found objects. When we (my husband and I) began working on it we thought we would gather actual gears and gauges to assemble into a cat. The spirit of Suess soon took over and we began sculpting gears to look like the parts in the wonderful contraptions found in the stories of Dr. Suess. It became more about what the characeters might do if they decided to get steampunked.
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the pictures are great but it is so much better in person!
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