Mixing one part of a discarded machine with elements of a robot or thinking of a device that sounds like a Frankenstein or found assemblage sculpture, it’s like mixing one form of a robot with another, taking apart dolls, toys, and model airplanes and assembling them as part of something that had never been seen. There’s a robot with a toy doll’s head and a gigantic body composed of parts of a truck, aircraft, and ship. Other assembled parts are from biological things such as animals and, in a sinister way, human organs. People build artificial life forms as if they were sculptors, parts of a living tree, parts of a robotic arm, or an arm of a construction machine put together to form a new life. Details of things are put together in haphazard ways, yet they still work; the reason why there are certain auras of life energy surrounding workshops is that’s why these things come to life.

People who build such life forms are sometimes called toy makers, but they should not be called by this name; they create new types of life forms. Some of these crafters, without planning, put mechanical and natural parts together in a careless way, yet what is built comes to life.

Crafters assembled various other species of trees to form a living thing that includes a sphere or human shape that can hover, to go anywhere to develop new colonies, it can procreate itself.

Hundreds of spheres of gel form a maker of life that is able to put any discarded machine parts into them again, producing new forms of artificial life.

It requires years of training to become a crafter or builder of things that are put together to become a life form.

Robert J. Matsunaga