(2025)

Another sculpture out of polymer clay. Started with a drawing of a prospector.

I wanted to turn another sketch into a physical model. I first made the prospector himself. Then I took a big nail and forged it into a tiny pickaxe.

Then I started making it more into a diorama. Out of a wooden board as a base and insulation foam, I started building up the mine shaft environment. By plucking the foam and adding the plucked bits back in other places, I tried for a mix between natural rock formation and already mined out.

The next additions are going to be more detailed decoration inside the mineshaft. A 3D printed mine cart and rails to put it on, functioning lanterns, more tools and shiny gold of course.