Mother-and-daughter team Penny and Briony Thomson create magical-looking miniature automata that manage to move just like the creatures they’re depicting. I think their papier-mâché works are just marvelous, and I was delighted to learn they’re made entirely of recycled, reused, and/or repurposed items (like clothespins and paperclips!). What a great second life for such mundane items.
Since their first own sculpture went viral in 2022, the pair struggle to keep up with demand for their brand of magic, and pieces fly off the shelves as soon as they’re announced. They also sell little sculptures and even D.I.Y. automata kits!
You can see all of Penny & Briony Thomson’s gorgeous miniature automata sculptures in their Etsy shop and on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.
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May 31, 2024 at 6:08 am
The kinetic pieces are marvelous and I found that there is pretty much something for everyone on their Etsy page.
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June 2, 2024 at 8:22 am
That’s a great point!
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May 31, 2024 at 6:34 am
These pieces are astoundingly good! The perfect rendering of all of those forms and textures at such a tiny scale is impressive but being able to construct such micro components to create kinetic sculptures truly blows my mind. And I am golluming really hard.
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June 2, 2024 at 8:23 am
And from recycled materials, too! The mind boggles.
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May 31, 2024 at 10:38 am
😮😮😮❤️❤️❤️
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