There is a new lower class of rubbish that has emerged in the last couple of hundred years that needed removal from the cesspool of depraved souls. The task landed on my desk to build the Soul Catcher.
Soul Grasp Chimera flies in ruined skies above battlefields of soul-scarred lands.
With it's ghoul-like face and grotesque fusion of malice in glowing eyes, it hunts down the utterly depraved.
My depiction art dedicated to children suffering unbelievable cruelty. There is a cross for each one of the eight hundred innocent babies, starved, neglected and abused to death. All this, in the care of the Catholic Church order of the Sisters of Bon Secours in Tuam.
The central structure is a chariot of twisted metal acting as hooks made of copper and patinated brass — hollow and open at the chest to trap the darkness. The figure’s posture is both reverent and tormented .
The spikes covering the chariot are there to hook centuries of institutional weight and denial.
Thus the Soul Catcher, who hunts down all the evil in churches, those who want pomp and finery, who fall to avarice and the gluttony of personal success.
Death is only the start of the agony.
It exposes how spiritual authority can become corrupted when its about power prestige and thrones.
Soul Catcher has a ton of demons ready to catch all the depraved unrepentant pedophile souls and bring them down to the chief demon for eternal processing.
I draw out the plan and then pierce it out from a 1 mm sheet of brass.
I make the sides out of cardboard first then brass, which is soldered together and bent into various forms. I prop the body up and work out the diameter of the wheels.
Making the spokes of a wheel is always a mission.
With this back one, I draw them out on a flat sheet of carving wax and pierce out the shape with a wax saw. After carving them into the shape I want, I sand cast them using the Delft sand casting technique.
For the front wheels I pierced the spokes out of 3 mm brass plate.
The axles come next. I sand cast some demon supports and fit them on the axles.
Making the demons heads out of copper plate and then adding spikes.
Next is working on the ghoul face by adding copper strips which are finished with patina.
Staring with the soul flitter darts. I want them to be perched onto the rear struts like little dragonfly thingi's that buzz out and catch passing souls. The design is pierced out and prepared for plique-à-jour enameling. I turned the bodies out of brass and screwed them onto the wings. The tail got a stinger and the nose a claw. I melted a glass rod into two bobbles on each side of the head so it locks into place.
The green glass is captured in between the legs, symbolically representing a catholic bishop's pedophile soul.
Making the front soul grippers. I used glow in the dark resin to make the leaf petals.
A close up of one of the demon flowers. There are six of those, all different.
The treads are cut out of copper and bent in an anti-clastic manner, to be effective ability to grip and hook, sweeping up all the souls. I like the ribbles on the side of the wheel rims. I cut them out with a separating disk. Then I round the tips with a cup burr.
I glued charcoal pieces into the center and then painted them so they looked like they were glowing.
Burning pit fire seen through the ghoul mouth.
The soul grippers. It needs to be strong because when evil souls are caught, they are very heavy with sin.
One of the piercing demon heads.
Soul Catcher has a ton of demons ready to catch all the depraved unrepentant pedophile souls and bring them down to the chief demon for eternal processing.
