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A Miniature Musical Curio Store by Chris Millar Spins Like Clockwork — Colossal

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February 23, 2025
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After he graduated from artwork college, Chris Millar (beforehand) labored in a toy retailer for seven years. “The store, now defunct, was referred to as Livingstone and Cavell Extraordinary Toys in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,” he tells Colossal. The shop carried classics like tin wind-ups, electrical trains, dolls, miniature troopers, and teddy bears.

Millar’s newest extravagantly detailed work was one-and-a-half years within the making and takes inspiration from the thrill of toy outlets and flea markets. He incorporates resin, acrylic paint, brass, metal, aluminum, electronics, and wooden into elaborate kinetic spectacles. Each a part of is produced from scratch excluding just a few gears.

an elaborately detailed sculpture with numerous sculpted, found, and painted elements installed on an ornately shaped white panel, with some of the elements able to be moved and rotated to show different scenes

“Mirthful Miscellanea” channels an imaginary, fantastical curio store run by two brothers named Wade and Snyder. “Their portraits may be seen in just a few areas of the sculpture,” Millar says. “Wade is an knowledgeable in medieval musical devices and roast rooster, and Snyder in antiquarian circus paraphernalia.”

The piece follows within the footsteps of a piece titled “Eclipse at Arc Valley” that comes with a clockwork mechanism, however this new sculpture additional elaborates on the design with a extra complicated mechanism and a base that emits sound from a music field, two gongs, and 6 bells.

Millar expresses a keenness for mom-and-pop outlets and quirky locations which have discovered it more and more troublesome to proceed working in our period of on-line international commerce. The inspiration for the sculpture “is a counter to the homogeneity that our internet-based tradition bestows on us,” he says.

The artist is represented by TrepanierBaer, and you’ll wander extra miniature imaginary worlds on the artist’s web site.

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