Process

The sculpture uses over 18,000 LEGO pieces and took a month and a half of full time work to design and build at my studio in Amsterdam.  It’s supported by a custom-fabricated welded steel armature, and every brick is glued piece-by-piece into place as the sculpture is created.  Only standard off-the-shelf everyday LEGO pieces were used, without any custom shapes or colors, and each is connected properly the way LEGO bricks are meant to be used.

I intentionally anthropomorphize my creatures (just a little) which pairs nicely with the cartoon-like look of the flat color of LEGO bricks.  Together with realistic posing and the subtle stepping of the LEGO bricks, this creates a really nice visual aesthetic that somehow keeps my sculptures both true-to-nature and yet impossibly digital.