Creature Sculptures
Jordan Mozer and award-winning, Nicaraguan-born Chef Michael Cordua have collaborated on four restaurants since 1993.
Chef Cordua is celebrated for cross-breeding indigenous pan-South American foodstuffs and recipes with European preparation techniques to produce original contemporary dishes that convey a North American perspective.
Like Chef Cordua’s, the design created for the restaurant tells a uniquely Pan American story. Elements are inspired by pre-historic American culture, the history of Texas, and contemporary urban street culture. Like the Chef’s food, each component is handmade from scratch, produced in America, uniquely North American.
These bronze creatures were inspired by ancient Peruvian Nazca lines, Inca gold figures and contemporary graffiti from Rio de Janeiro, and the magical realist stories of the Nobel Prize-winning Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The sculptures were hand-sculpted by Mozer in Plaster in late 2009 and early 2010. The sculptures were cast in Chicago 94% recycled red-bronze, and then hand polished. The mulberry slab was cut from a tree felled in an electrical storm in Michigan and dried to JMA’s specifications. It was sculpted with rasps and sandpaper and finished with wax.
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Part of the HousePets Collection
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