This Victorian monstrosity is composed of between 110,000 and 130,000 individual pieces, mostly black and white, and it took over six hundred hours to create, all told. Check out the Making Of entry on his blog. See more of Mike’s work in his Flickr stream.
For me, this piece speaks to the inherent unpredictability of those things which we call our foundation. Like a little dollhouse, a seemingly secure home is plucked up and set on a new path. This charming home, lovingly embellished with ornamental fancy was no match for nature. The fancy embellishments serve as a reminder of our earlier focus on the material world, while the aftermath removes us from that focus. The piece offers no answers or necessarily any hope, but rather points to life’s fragility.
.... wow. That's my kind of LEGO. I wonder how much 130,000 pieces would cost?
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