Fossils are the remains of the natural past; scrap is the remains of our industrial past. Each piece of metal came from the earth, was shaped into something useful, lived out its first life, and was eventually discarded.
King of the Scrap is resurrection through transformation: a creature from deep time built from the modern fossils of human industry.
Archaeology in reverse.
(Thanks Shona Blomquist for the original photo!)
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