Like relics smuggled back by Carl Denham from Peter Jackson's Skull Island, these mixed-media sculptures are totemic and irresistibly tactile. For me, they evoke boys' own adventure style fantasies of head-shrinkers and peoples-that-time-forgot. I feature them here because, in terms of texture alone, they are mouth-watering. In terms of character design, their rich ethnicity and theatrical tribalism may inspire...
"The artist calling himself Jim Skull creates intricate sculptures of his namesake: skulls. Using a variety of different materials, the New Caledonia-born artist uses the skull form as his means of expression. Skull is now based in Paris and besides making elaborate skulls using rope, papier mache and other materials he has also developed a new series of skulls that each reference a well known figure including furniture designer Andree Putman, fashion designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and LSD inventor Timothy Leary."
from designboom.com
See more at Jim's Site
These are really beautiful! Who'd have thought skulls could look so amazing :P
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