Michel ‘Michelle’ Darling

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SCULPTURE
  1. 1200 BCE VR goggles, Touch Grass Oculus Rift
  2. Untitled/Everlast
  3. Outdoor Sculpture Design & Install -Thomaston, ME 2024
  4. Brute Cuff
  5. Faux Relics  (2) 
  6. Memory Preservation Project 2023-2024 (Audio Sculpture)
  7. DaDa Tie




1200 BCE VR goggles 
Touch Grass Oculus Rift





1200 BCE VR goggles 
Touch Grass Oculus Rift

Bronze, copper, sterling silver
8.5” x 4” x 3” 

Have you been struggling to sit with and notice reality lately? Wonderful new technology and very human design! You will be able to focus in on a single detail of your field of view. Includes Mammary charging block to feed and recharge device. 













Untitled/Everlast 









Too bad Sun Tzu ain’t got a chapter for when the enemy is yourself 

13” x 11” x 5” 
Restraint sculpture. 
Altered and restored vintage Everlast boxing gloves 🥊🥊—> glove
Defense only glove








Outdoor Sculpture Design & Install 
-Thomaston, ME 2024




Installed in Thomaston, ME with Tutto Metalworks, August 2024
Copper, mild steel, midcoast stone
72” x 40” x 18”


Faux Relics  (2) 



Byzantine Yisus Ring /The Son.  (faux relic)
Bronze

Statue of Fertility /The Madonna.  
(faux relic)
Bronze



Memory Preservation Project 2023-2024 (Audio Sculpture)




In latin;  to record, to go again through the heart.


Sonic sculpture of 3 editions, vinyl record form preserving a audio-visual preservation.
Played on any standard phono-record player.
Hand made copper records as rreliquary or storage device of memory.

1. Record #0
first trial 15 second duration
6”

UNRECORDED

2. Record #1
Dedicated to the charles river Side A and 1025 Beacon St Side B
12” with documents & sleeve





3. Record #2
Dedicate to Isaac Side A & B
12” with documents & sleeve