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Artist Creates Amazing Insect Sculptures Using Nothing But Old Car Parts and Scrap Metal



There’s a lot of amazing recycled art out there, but French artist Edouard Martinet stands out with his unique, recognizable style and pain-staking perfectionism and attention to detail. The insects and other critters that he crafts from spare parts look like fantastic creatures out of an alternate retro universe.Martinet collects old spare parts at flea markets and car part sales. He then assembles these parts into beautiful insects and other animals. His pieces can take anywhere from a month to seventeen years – he is obsessed with finding just the right part for his wonderful creations. What’s more, he does not solder his art the way that many other recycled-material artists do – he finds parts that fit perfectly or near-perfectly and mostly uses screws to link them together.Martinet is careful about the aesthetics of the parts he chooses as well. Most of them seem to be from older or even antique vehicles/appliances.


They give off the unmistakable cool of 1950s cars or motorcycles that couldn’t be achieved if he used just any old parts.As amazing as Martinet’s work is, he’s not the only talented master of recycled parts – check out Susan Beatrice’s work with old watch parts, Christopher Locke’s brass-instrument iPhone amplifiers, and the steampunk interior design at Truth Cafe.Source: edouardmartinet.net