JAKE LAHAH(He/Him)

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Building a T-Rex, 2023. Screen print on laser cut plywood, brackets, fishing line, and bolts. 98” by 76” by 22”

Using basic Adobe software, I scanned the sheets of a wooden 3D dinosaur puzzle. Using image tracing, scaling, and large scale signage production, I recreated the puzzle to a larger than life scale, treating each piece by intuitively screen printing a floral pattern onto it. Building a T-Rex is a sculptural print piece that sits somewhere between a display in a natural history museum and a children’s museum sculpture.

This work draws inspiration on research about roadside and coastal attractions of strange nature. This includes, research on the history of larger-than-life monuments that often depict the natural and pop culture as advertising and selling points for consumerism and tourism.
 

Building a T-Rex, 2023. Fabrication blueprints and digital model of the work, made by digitally scanning the sheets to create a proposal for building. 

Building a T-Rex, 2023. Flat layouts for digital cutting.

Building a T-Rex (detail photo), 2023. Screen print on laser cut plywood, brackets, fishing line, and bolts. 98” by 76” by 22”

Building a T-Rex (detail photo), 2023. Screen print on laser cut plywood, brackets, fishing line, and bolts. 98” by 76” by 22”