Tor’s award-winning art director Irene Gallo’s been to the steampunk gallery show in the Hamptons (which sports work by some of my favorite steampunk makers, including Jake von Slatt, Roger Wood and Datamancer) and come back wiht a short and glowing review:
My favorite work was from clockmaker Eric Freitas. He took the interior mechanisms of the clocks and morphed them into organic shapes–metallic twigs, almost-leaves, and shapes reminiscent of insect exoskeletons. Stunning. They evoke both decay and growth:
