Technology Imagined – Home Page
This website is a place where I display my artwork. The inspiration for the art I display here started in late 2012. My wife Kathleen and I decided to remodel our living room. I had always wanted to do a room that would have the look and feel of the images seen in a series of old PC games I had played many years ago. These games were MYST, Riven and the subsequent sequels. I found the style of these games spoke to me. They seemed to have a feeling that was late 19th century, but somehow technologically advanced. Jules Verne type science fiction. I thought it looked cool. So in late 2012 we started on a project to make our living room resemble this style. When I started looking into it at that time I found that the style had a name as well as quite a following. I apparently wasn’t the only geek who found this style fascinating and my fellow appreciators had come up with a name for the style- “Steampunk”.
I have to thank Kathleen for being both tolerant of my plans and also trusting of my vision for the room without my having anything like actual plans. I had a general idea where I wanted this to go, and could see it in my head, but my wife just had to trust me.
Our living room 11 years on (2023) has now reached completion. I will probably add and change things as time goes on but I thought this site is as good a place as any to show off our creation. Kathleen was a major help in all of the work done.
I had said that this Steampunk Room was the inspiration for my art. In doing this room I made many custom pieces for both function; lamps, speaker boxes, etc., and decoration. I would fabricate some pieces and combine them with antique and vintage elements to get the style I was looking for. I found that I loved making this stuff. So much so that I started running out of space for them in our Steampunk room. My plan is to continue to make these pieces and display them here. Hopefully they will find an audience that will appreciate and be inspired by them.
Below you can take a tour of the Steampunk Living room as completed . In the future I may be adding more details as to how some of the pieces were constructed. Steampunk Living Room
Many of these pieces I do now are just for the sake of making them. I’ve sort of run out of room to display them. As far as the Technology Imagined website, I have organized it with each project in its own blog. They are laid out showing my process for making each piece. I have tried to supply enough information for someone to copy each project or at least use them as inspirations for their own creations.
