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Jake von Slatt
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Jake von Slatt is a maker, tinkerer, and junk yard sociologist living and creating just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. By day he is an IT Manger working for The Man, but this occupation does nothing to assuage his desire to Make, so late at night he toils in his workshop creating artifacts from a past that wasn't.
I work largely with found objects and build artifacts from alternate pasts that imbue and connect modern contrivances with their 19th Century roots. I actually consider my true work to be the web pages that describe the construction of each piece, the piece itself merely the byproduct of the workshop experience. Our world is full of technology and almost all of it began during the 19th Century and the Industrial Revolution. By exploring this time we lay a foundation of understanding for technology and its role in history and daily life. With this understanding we can make smart decision concerning the role of it in our lives and speak with knowledge and power to the corporations that would prefer we remain ignorant of the tech they would sell us.
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The Fender Stratocaster electric guitar is an iconic instrument of the 20th Century and a gold standard in Rock & Roll. But even the most wondrous item becomes boring when reproduced a million times. Here I used a 19th Century electrolytic etching technique combined with a process used by today's electronics hobbyists to create a faux clockwork guitar that combines the iconography of two centuries.
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Fender US Highway One series Stratocaster, Brass
$2,000.00
not available
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