{"id":450748,"date":"2025-02-21T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/?p=450748"},"modified":"2025-02-21T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:54:40","slug":"chris-millar-mirthful-miscellanea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/02\/chris-millar-mirthful-miscellanea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Miniature Musical Curio Shop by Chris Millar Spins Like Clockwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-default entry-header is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"colo-post-featured-image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2444\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-14-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"a close-up detail of part of an elaborately decorated sculpture with numerous sculpted and painted elements, emphasizing an ornate interior with a tiled floor and numerous patterns with different perspectives, surrounded by a flowery border\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-14-scaled.jpg 2444w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-14-640x670.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-14-960x1005.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-14-768x804.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-14-1467x1536.jpg 1467w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-14-1956x2048.jpg 1956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2444px) 100vw, 2444px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Detail of &#8220;Mirthful Miscellanea&#8221; (2024), resin, acrylic paint, brass, steel, aluminum, electronics, and wood, 22 x 60 x 16 inches. Photos by Jacques Bellavance. All images \u00a9 Chris Millar, shared with permission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group post-title is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><h1 class=\"alignfull wp-block-post-title\">A Miniature Musical Curio Shop by Chris Millar Spins Like Clockwork<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull post-meta is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-02-21T14:20:00-06:00\">February 21, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a class=\"category-art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/category\/art\/\" rel=\"tag\">Art<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/author\/kmothes\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"wp-block-post-author-name__link\">Kate Mothes<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull post-share-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-outermost-social-sharing has-visible-labels has-icon-color is-style-logos-only is-layout-flex wp-block-social-sharing-is-layout-flex\"><li style=\"color: #1c1e0d; 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he tells Colossal.&nbsp;The store carried classics like tin wind-ups, electric trains, dolls, miniature soldiers, and teddy bears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millar&#8217;s latest extravagantly detailed work was one-and-a-half years in the making and takes inspiration from the joys of toy shops and flea markets. He incorporates resin, acrylic paint, brass, steel, aluminum, electronics, and wood into elaborate kinetic spectacles. Every part of is made from scratch with the exception of a few gears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-1-960x1440.jpg\" alt=\"an elaborately detailed sculpture with numerous sculpted, found, and painted elements installed on an ornately shaped white panel, with some of the elements able to be moved and rotated to show different scenes\" class=\"wp-image-450749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-1-960x1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-1-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-1-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/millar-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mirthful Miscellanea&#8221; channels an imaginary, fantastical curio shop run by two brothers named Wade and Snyder. &#8220;Their portraits can be seen in a few areas of the sculpture,&#8221; Millar says. &#8220;Wade is an expert in medieval musical instruments and roast chicken, and Snyder in antiquarian circus paraphernalia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece follows in the footsteps of a work titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2023\/07\/chris-millar-sculptures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eclipse at Arc Valley<\/a>&#8221;&nbsp;that incorporates a clockwork mechanism, but this new sculpture further elaborates on the design with a more complex mechanism and a base that emits sound from a music box, two gongs, and six bells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millar expresses a fondness for mom-and-pop shops and quirky destinations that have found it increasingly difficult to continue operating in our era of online global commerce. The inspiration for the sculpture &#8220;is a counter to the homogeneity that our internet-based culture bestows on us,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The artist is represented by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trepanierbaer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TrepanierBaer<\/a>, and you can wander more miniature imaginary worlds on the artist&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrismillar.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mirthful Miscellanea\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g8oaANEF0m0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" 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