Willy

(AKA the aforementioned “a fucking adorable plant pot(s) I designed and printed)

3D succulent home

K asked me to gin up a home for a homeless pair of succulents and lo, these little things were born.

metal_0031.1

Decided the original looked too unfinished (and not raw) so I went with black. Dig the contrast.

metal_0035

Three sheets of metal, a threaded rod, and a long-neglected birdbath.

metal_0033

Two tiny versions of the pot from metal_0031 filled with scrap in two (tiny) ways.

metal_0031

Inspired in equal parts by my wife's garden, Zoetica Ebb's "Alien Botany" series (collected in her exquisite CHIMERIC HERBARIUM book), Lynda Barry's scribble monsters, and my own scrap metal / 3D printing explorations (especially the daylilies I made for my wife, niece, and sister-in-law), the first of my series of imaginary scrap metal plants accompanied by my own 3D-printed vase designs. A fun experiment - and what I hope is the first of many.

20250616 :: iterated to 0031.1: painted the raw metal black