All you hellbound cats, let me tell you what the fanciest amongst you brings to the party with the Mad Metal Hatter – this teapot. Pour from it your motor oil and glasses of greasy slick. Sticking feathers in your butt doesn’t make you a chicken, but incorporating mechanics into your body DOES make you a machine. “You’re a machine, baby” my high school art teacher used to tell students when they seemed to be doing hard work. Designer Richard Symons is a machine. Designer Richard Symons made this coffee pot.

This “Robo Tea Pot” is only the newest in a line of fabulously constructed, molded, and poured in resin set of mechanistic sculptures by Symons. Each of these represents an alternate reality, one that we imagine now to be the future of our culture. This is what the folks who worked on Star Wars and Blade Runner would call the “Used Future.” One that’s not clean, smooth, polished, but closer to a semi-truck stop. Not dirty, but certainly functional. Dings, cuts, and chips.

These metal amalgamations work like the Death Star, or an H.R.Giger painting – model kit after model kit of boxes, circles, pads, bits, all for texture, aesthetics, and since it’s so simple to understand as hyper-overly-machined, the look of these pieces is in place simply to move the idea as an understandable one.

So, each piece, as an understandably “machined” object, then must be interpreted as the object it is without the metal. The teapot you see above? There’d be no reason to have all that machinery on a pot for tea. Then there’s the skull. Devil if that doesn’t say something about our modern world. Putting anything on a skull says something intrinsic about the human condition.

Take a peek at the rest of these here, then keep your ear to the streets for the new ones coming out in the future by Symons. Excitement for the machined-look collector culture!

If you’d like to contact Richard Symons, mail him through his portfolio website. He’s got these on sale, and if I’m not mistaken, he takes commissions too. And since he’s not the most famous artist in the world, these pieces are extremely reasonably priced. Metal.

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