The Thing

Details:

Medium: Resin, wire and enamel on tinplate toy parts

Dimensions: Approx. 19 x 14 x 12.5cm

I've no idea of the age of the clockwork mechanism, but when I found this, I thought "hey, do I have the chutzpah to construct my own toy?"

Not at the time, I didn't.

It took me a year to cotton on to the fact that I could saw off the front of a Lehman toy scooter and attach it to the front of this rig to mobilise my creeping embodiment of Gloom.

I wanted to title it 'Creeping Jesus', the name my great-grandmother was given by her husband every time she'd crawl out of bed and pace the house in her sleep, but this sucker creeps not. It fucking motors.

I am unreasonably proud of it.