“A dark, skeletal re-interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky. This surrealist stainless steel sculpture features elongated limbs and a textured, bone-like finish.”
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!" — Lewis Carroll
In this re-interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s famous beast, I moved away from the traditional dragon-like depictions to explore something more ancient and unsettling. This sculpture imagines the Jabberwocky not as a bulky monster, but as a skeletal, stalking spirit of the "tulgey wood."
Crafted from stainless steel, the figure is defined by its exaggerated, stilt-like limbs which give it a precarious, towering silhouette. The body is stripped back to a raw, anatomical cage—an exposed spine and ribcage rendered with heavy, beaded welding to mimic the texture of excavated bone or decaying matter. Topped with a humanoid skull, this Jabberwocky blurs the line between man and monster, casting a long, distortion-heavy shadow that is as much a part of the piece as the steel itself.
