bird gun

For this project we were required to create something that was half mechanical and half organic.  This was also my first introduction to wood.  Working with wood was difficult for me because I tend to make very fluid forms.  Although wood is stiffer and blockier than most mediums that I've worked with, I still attempted to make the bird parts very organic.  

This is the morning of it's completion, still held in clamps.

the curved ribcage of the bird was difficult to make because the machines don't cut like that.

When I was bringing the bird gun home, I ran into a few tree-trimmers on campus who thought it was awesome.  I used them to model the bird-gun.

 

lastly, here I am modeling my own project.