The Bot
Bot Name: Viela
Bot Number: 20181137
The parts used to put the bot together
Head: Lawrence Welk Cassette
Eyes: Printer gears and Foam board washers
Body: Vintage Kodak film tin
Feet: Painted black pipe caps
Hands: Alligator clips
Structural Wire: Copper wire
Secondary Wire: Yellow with blue spot, telephone wire
Dimensions
11.25in tall x 3in wide x 3in long
Dimensions are based on the bot’s pose in the last photo and include the length of the antenna, legs, and arms.
About
Viela, is handcrafted out of old, used, and discarded parts. Many times parts from computers, printer, radios, typewriters, etc are torn apart and used. Parts like electrical boxes, electrical conduit, electrical hardware, fuses, vacuum tubes, tins, etc, are bought from various secondhand shops and antique boutiques. After the parts are all found and dissembled the bot is put together with wire. The wire is sewn through each of the bot’s parts, connecting everything together. There is a structural wire, which holds the bot up and together. This wire is bought from a hardware store. The secondary wire is more decorative. This wire can be from telephone wire, networking wire, industrial cables, etc that gets stripped down. Other wire used, is wire meant for jewelry making. All of the bot’s hands are bought from a hardware store or secondhand shop. Most of the hands are some form of electrical clips or connectors.
If you’re bored with the bot’s current pose the wire makes it possible for you to move the bot’s: arms, legs, head, or antenna, around to something that better fits your needs.
The bot’s hands are metal clips that can hold photos, or other small objects like: recipes, small flags, balloon strings, small signs, name tags, a few business cards, a pen, a 12in ruler, etc…
The Tags
Each bot comes with an identification tag, which shows the bot’s individual name and the bot’s unique number. See below example, which explains the numbers.
Bot Number: 2016750
The first number indicates the year the bot was made. Example (2016)750 means the bot was made in 2016.
The second number, indicates the bot’s number, in sequence to the rest of the bots. Example 2016(750) means this bot is the 750th bot I have made.
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