3D-Edddy

3D-Edddy returns to the Cloverdale plaza this year with “CromptonDragonOsarus”, a piece inspired by a drawing by 4 ½ year old Colin Crompton. Edddy has been on a life-long mission to create new value from discarded objects, and CromptonDragonOsarus is a prime example of this work. “I create with what’s at hand,” he said. “In the late 70’s and early 80’s, due to a lack of art education funding in our schools, I began to provide art enrichment for my family. Being of modest means, I used household junk, used lumber, and found objects to construct sculptures. We gathered these materials and waited for the objects to speak to us, telling us what they wanted to be.”

Edddy began “CromptonDragonOsarus” by building the armature from salvaged lumber. Shaping the wood with a circular saw created the roundness for the scales, which are fashioned from sheet metal. He used a bicycle for the eyes, and enlisted his mother to make the stained glass features. Bicycle handles, tin cans, stove pipe, bottle caps and jar lids were all incorporated, and thrift-store forks and spoons became the “teeth”. Assembly took place at the Chops Teen Center in Santa Rosa, where the staff and teens were all delighted to participate, and to learn about both art and creative recycling from Edddy.  

Edddy is passionate about new uses for junk. “Our present generation threatens to become inundated with the accumulation of junk, and as was the case of the impressionists venturing out of the old school academy of art, the “Now” generation must do something constructive with our present time. As the population increases, more and more junk accumulates, and thinking people find themselves identifying with this new condition. Therefore, Junk Art is putting the nearly impossible articles together to make new sense for communication in the reality of our times.” 

Photo by Tedd Peterson