Homo erectus: Hominin #8

Homo erectus: Hominin #8 - 1/88 Limited Edition Format: 2160 x 2160 px - MP4 Looping video - 150 dpi This Hominin bust by the Smithsonian paleoartist John Gurche is built with clay over a cast or 3D print of an ancient skull, from which a silicone mold is taken and the face painted into the mold. Acrylic eyes, and bear or human hair implanted manually and individually. Materials: clay, casting, 3D printing, silicone, acrylic, paint, bear hair, human hair. Medium: digital photography, post-production coloring, animation. After a century of fragmentary finds of *Homo erectus*, a beautifully preserved skeleton of a young male was found in Kenya in the mid-1980s. The boy’s skeleton shows th...View all