Do you remember the American action horror film Van Heising, in which the protagonist of the film, Van Heising, turns into a werewolf after being bitten by another werewolf? The same werewolf has been reproduced into sculpture made from tires this time, by the famous Korean artist Yong ho Ji, as part of his mutant mythos collection.
Hybrid-human tire sculptures
As part of this series Ji has been creating sculptures of various creatures made from redundant tires for long. The pieces in this series have been made manually from recycled tires. The sizes of his creations vary from an eleven inch high dog to a goat with five feet tall horns to a ten feet long shark. The sculptures are made from tire strips cut from recycled tires and connected by synthetic resins. Ji uses frames of steel, wood or Styrofoam for making the structure of the sculpture.
The series is praiseworthy because, in essence, Ji has tried to capture the mutation of human beings through the long chain of evolution. He has featured eight types of animal classes in his classical sculptures like carnivorous, herbivorous and omnivorous animals, arthropods, fish, the imaginative category of hybrid humans and hybrid animals and finally the humans.
Ji has chosen to refer to his creations as mutants because basically his work showcases the hybrid forms of creatures and it uses recycled tires as a medium for his sculptures. Ji's work became famous after it was exhibited at New York's Gana art in 2008 and since then has been shown around the world. To use recycled tires in his art form was a conscious decision by him as he wanted to make things which subtly conveyed the message about humanity's responsibility towards nature and its conservation.
Via: Designboom
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