World Famous Design Junkies » Cars Ripped Apart by Acid

Ripped to shreds! Actually part of an ongoing series of works made with stencils and plasma cutting on steel pieces of metal. The steel kind. Spectacular patterning can be seen in each of these, the newest works by one Cal Lane, the pieces you see inside from both the “Car Parts” set and the “Filigree Car Bombing” pile. These pieces, part of a larger set of works called “Steel Lace,” are just the kind of thing I’d really like to have but wouldn’t have a place to put it! Perhaps a big steel shed. It’s a dilemma of epic proportions.

It’s also an artwork of epic proportions. The design time that went into this project had to have only been matched by the amount of craft working laid down on it. It’s a rare designer / artist indeed that’s got both skills to this amount of max.

Cal Lane is the kind of woman who’ll take the time to create something not only epic and breathtaking, but also eternal. Now these pieces wont last forever, and judging by the technique, I’d say they wont be around for even half of forever. But that’s not what’s important. What’s important is that in these pieces is a work of art that cannot be photographed. Cannot be experienced fully without the piece in front of you, as the sculpture it was meant to be, and that, makes it a work to aspire to. Generations can peek at these burned up cars and say yes, I would like to do something this amazing.

“If only I were as awesome as Cal Lane.” – they’d say.

NOTE: Picture at the bottom of the gallery is from a 07 interview with the New York Times – “Turn Steel Into Lace” is given with a full-geared Cal Lane, burning it up.

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