Welcome to the Steampunk Zone!

The ad that drew me in the doors

of Art Space on Sixth.

I walked in.

I said,

"Can anyone please 'splain me

what, exactly,

'Steampunk' means?'

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From the 1870s to about the 1940s,

before the true technology takeover,

Steampunk

referred to artists, authors, etc.

who made art endeavoring to

illustrate their individual ideas

as to what the future would be like.

***

Ok, that's a start.

I turn,

I mosey into one of the exhibit rooms,

sorta kinda anxiously reading

every single label to

see if it said Steampunk.

But then!

Here she came:

And then things got goooOOoood!

Ed Schenck piece,

looking like every alien in every

old comic book I ever laid eyes on.

Also rather like ET on crack, huh?

[Or is that Toni on crack,

looking at ET?]

Drawings, left, right, by Nina Pak.

More, later, on

the midriff in the center.

Ed Schenck?

I love

what you do with found objects.

Doesn't this look like

the Alien,

from the original movie?

Bad A**!

Details

This is beyond cool,

beyond fierce,

beyond any ray gun I

evah

got from mailing in cereal box tops.

Angel, and Ray Guns.

And a War and Peace combination

pinball/target shooting gizmo.

Angel rocked it.

I missed a lot.

Ray guns - Ed Schenck

War and Peace gizmo - Ken Coplan

See,

Angel gets to touch,

even tho' all the signs say

'please don't'

to exhibit viewers such as myself.

So when Angel touched,

Toni got to touch, too.
Toni likes to touch,
especially ray guns.

Ken Coplan's pieces,

also of found objects,

hushed me.

Juxtoposition of bullet casings and

angel heads,

rusted out bottle openers,

screws, springs,

some with on buttons,

all with gorgeous patina?

Well, lots to think about

and take in.

Future Fashion

from the inventive mind of

artist Sarah Welch,

constructed of recycled products.

I would SO wear this!

Having seen this much,

I'm ready to do some personal research

on the genre,

and return.

For Phoenix-Metro area locals

The Full Steam-Punk Ahead Exhibit

lasts through Sunday, February 28th, 2010

11 a.m. to 6 p.m., free admission

at ArtSpace on Sixth

7127 East Sixth Avenue, Scottsdale

480-423-0888

Ask for Angel!