What? Wot?

 Sometimes art happens.

I did the original doodle for this sculpture while chatting on the ‘phone, and it went from conception to completion without many changes.

The hardest part was making the heavy ‘knitted’ sweater. I created each vertical ‘cable’ with ordinary household string, which I laid strip by strip. It doesn’t look like a big job but it took days.

People have commented that “Wot?” reminds them of the minions in the movie “Despicable Me”, and I’m okay with that. Part of my creative process is to absorb visual references from any source, then let them re-emerge in a new form and in a new context. Echoes of my life experience will always emerge, and not always with a direct line to the source. It’s the unconscious linking up of sometimes disparate elements that makes these sculptures such fun to do.

The minions from the movie "Despicable Me"