Depeche Modes of Production

Mixed Media Sculptures by Larry Shea
Loveland Gallery,
Provincetown, MA
This is an ongoing project exploring the relationship between significant personal memories and the objects associated with them, such as my childhood toy chest and the pop music from that time. Fabricated from a combination of 3D modeling, laser-cut and thermoformed acrylic, and 3D videography, these sculptures use elaborate and up-to-the-minute technical processes to explore the orphic world of memory where the personal meets the manufactured.

Funded by: The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, The Berkman Faculty Development Fund, and a S.O.D Faculty Development grant.

2 sculptures have been completed:

Wildfire

Boys Say Go

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Sculpture 1
Wildfire • viewers POV looking into mirror on underside of lid. A lush 3D garden recedes into the distance. [CLICK TO HEAR SOUNDTRACK] Actual object
Wildfire (detail) • interior detail of handcrafted acrylic inlay, hinge & mirror.
Wildfire • Obverse, installation view @ Loveland
Sculpture 2
Boys Say Go • Viewers POV, an endless road at night recedes into a recreation of the hood of my mothers 1983 Toyota Tercel. [CLICK TO HEAR SOUNDTRACK] Actual object	3D video projection onto a translucent plexiglas model of the hood of my mother’s 1983 Toyota Tercel - driving down a road at night, with a mix tape playing Depeche Mode’s “Boys Say Go. The 3D image appears to recede into the hood.
Process Photos: C&C router making the mold from a 3D CAD file that will then be used to thermoform the hood from a sheet of colored acrylic.	Boys Say Go at the Opening
Boys Say Go • The opening @ Loveland
Smaller Objects
Gay Time • laser cut & hand inlaid acrylic plexi objects. Based on the actual label from my childhood toy chest (below).
Seal Mirror • a concoction made from laser cut & hand inlaid acrylic plexi.

Depeche Modes of Production

Funded by: The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, The Berkman Faculty Development Fund, and a S.O.D Faculty Development grant.

2 sculptures have been completed:

Wildfire

Boys Say Go

Sculpture 1

Wildfire

• viewers POV looking into mirror on underside of lid. A lush 3D garden recedes into the distance.

Wildfire (detail)

• interior detail of handcrafted acrylic inlay, hinge & mirror.

Wildfire

• Obverse, installation view @ Loveland

Sculpture 2

Boys Say Go

• Viewers POV, an endless road at night recedes into a recreation of the hood of my mothers 1983 Toyota Tercel.

3D video projection onto a translucent plexiglas model of the hood of my mother’s
1983 Toyota Tercel - driving down a road at night, with a mix tape playing Depeche Mode’s
“Boys Say Go. The 3D image appears to recede into the hood.

Process Photos:
C&C router making the mold from a 3D CAD file that will then be used to thermoform the hood from a sheet of colored acrylic.

Boys Say Go at the Opening

Boys Say Go

• The opening @ Loveland

Smaller Objects

Gay Time

• laser cut & hand inlaid acrylic plexi objects. Based on the actual label from my childhood toy chest (below).

Seal Mirror

• a concoction made from laser cut & hand inlaid acrylic plexi.

Lawrence Shea
Associate Professor, Video & Media Design
School of Drama
Carnegie Mellon University
lshea@cmu.edu

Depeche Modes of Production

Funded by: The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, The Berkman Faculty Development Fund, and a S.O.D Faculty Development grant.

2 sculptures have been completed:

Wildfire

Boys Say Go

Sculpture 1

Wildfire

• viewers POV looking into mirror on underside of lid. A lush 3D garden recedes into the distance.

Wildfire (detail)

• interior detail of handcrafted acrylic inlay, hinge & mirror.

Wildfire

• Obverse, installation view @ Loveland

Sculpture 2

Boys Say Go

• Viewers POV, an endless road at night recedes into a recreation of the hood of my mothers 1983 Toyota Tercel.

﻿ 3D video projection onto a translucent plexiglas model of the hood of my mother’s 1983 Toyota Tercel - driving down a road at night, with a mix tape playing Depeche Mode’s “Boys Say Go. The 3D image appears to recede into the hood.

Process Photos: C&C router making the mold from a 3D CAD file that will then be used to thermoform the hood from a sheet of colored acrylic.

Boys Say Go at the Opening

Boys Say Go

• The opening @ Loveland

Smaller Objects

Gay Time

• laser cut & hand inlaid acrylic plexi objects. Based on the actual label from my childhood toy chest (below).

Seal Mirror

• a concoction made from laser cut & hand inlaid acrylic plexi.

Lawrence Shea Associate Professor, Video & Media Design School of Drama Carnegie Mellon University lshea@cmu.edu

3D video projection onto a translucent plexiglas model of the hood of my mother’s
1983 Toyota Tercel - driving down a road at night, with a mix tape playing Depeche Mode’s
“Boys Say Go. The 3D image appears to recede into the hood.

Process Photos:
C&C router making the mold from a 3D CAD file that will then be used to thermoform the hood from a sheet of colored acrylic.

Lawrence Shea
Associate Professor, Video & Media Design
School of Drama
Carnegie Mellon University
lshea@cmu.edu