NECLOS FORTRESS NYALRATHAP part 8 vintage toy cast in solid bronze handmade sculpture

This Neclos Fortress toy mini-sculpture was handmade in my workshop, hot cast in solid bronze. The original toy figure was produced in Japan in the late '80s to early '90s by Lotte, and was a rubbery plastic toy figure sold with candy (similar to Cracker Jacks or Kinder Joy egg toys). This particular toy was developed as a game similar to Dungeons and Dragons, including warriors, sorcerers, and mythical monsters and creatures.

These are solid bronze objet d'art small sculptures that I've developed through the ancient technique of lost wax casting. They have the potential to last many thousands of years (the oldest found cast bronze objects are nearly 6,000 years old). I consider my bronze cast objects satirical art pieces because I am taking vintage plastic toys that were intended for kids to play with temporarily and then become lost or discarded, and were intentionally produced to not last very long, then turning them into permanent objects that can last millennia. It humors me that these temporary contemporary plastic toy objects cast into bronze might last for thousands of years and could give someone in the distant future a small peek at the childhood culture of our time. In fact, many of the vintage plastic toys that I'm using in the casting process are already showing signs of deterioration and will eventually be lost forever to time, except for those few objects that I cast permanently into bronze. These small bronze sculptures represent a cryptic one way communication with anyone in the future who might come across them, and I'm inviting you to join the discussion and become its temporary steward to that distant future conversation.