My Artwork and creations

  Inspired by the movie “The Avengers”, this simple piece consists of a set of action figures, glued to a lamp I got at Goodwill, and then spray-painted gold. I got the idea from some internet user who came up with it. 

  This book, inspired by the iconic “Twilight Zone” episode “To Serve Man” (Season 3, episode 24, 1962), in which aliens who visit earth carry a book with this foreign inscription. Later in the show, it’s revealed that it says “To Serve Man”. Initially thought to mean that the aliens want to be our servants, it is later discovered it means to serve a dish….it’s a cook book. To make this, I lasered the design onto vinyl to create a stencil, and then spray-painted the letters. 

  My friend Kim gave me this Violin shortly after we met in 2019. It was busted pretty badly, and she liked my Steampunk instruments and gave it to me to “do my thing”, and this is the result. As opposed to my guitars, this is a non-electric instrument, so I had to be tamer with body modifications, so this is a relatively simple transformation, consisting mostly of a paint job and the cogs glued on the bottom-right of the body. 

  Shortly after moving to the US, I met a guy named Lenny Luzzi, a graphics designer by day and accordion player by night. Knowing how much Lenny loved accordions (he had about 10 of them, last time I checked), and after a series of steampunked guitars, I decided to expand by making this instrument, which I gave Lenny. This was quite a complicated paint job, as I had to take a very foreign instrument apart to paint it without damaging the internal parts, and I also had to make sure the various pieces I stuck in there wouldn’t cause an air leak, as the accordion is a wind instrument. Good looking piece, I think.

  I’ve always adored the Harpsicord, a middle-ages keyboard instrument that preceded the Piano. While musically, it was inferior, I always loved their inverted design of black keys and white minor keys, and so when I found this (really good) digital piano at Goodwill one day, I decided it was my chance. It was quite tricky to mask the keys intermittently, so I could spray-paint them cleanly, but I’m pretty happy with the results! (bottom-left corner shows the original)

  After making 3 steampunk guitars, I had the urge to make ONE last one….and I felt it would be a bit off the mark to make one based on a gaming guitar. “Rock Band” type instruments are a dime-a-dozen at thrift stores, so I was able to find one quickly. The rest was a pretty-standard set of steps – paint, cogwheels and the curvy-shape that I laser cut. Finished-off the neck with a silver-tone paint job and some “rust” effects with black plasti-dip, as I usually do