Click Mort

07 Dec Click Mort

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Artist Christopher Doran, aka Click Mort, used to leave oddly shaped, altered toys on the shelves of stores in Los Feliz. He worked for collectible toy producer, Gentle Giant, and frequently drafted his co-workers to help him place his guerrilla artworks. Soon after, he started crafting the ceramic figurines he called “recapitations.” He’d buy collectibles off the internet, then painstakingly take them apart and rebuild them — he’d have a reptile with its arm around a goose, boys who are half carrot clamoring onto a doghouse, or a cheetah-headed man helping a young boy fire a rifle. They were intentionally unsettling objects that turned the intended sweetness of these figurines into something else entirely.

Rather than sculpting from scratch, Click chose the harder path of precision cutting and remixing discarded nostalgia figurines, salt and pepper shakers, objet d’art collectibles and reconfiguring them into ironic and frequently sardonic original artworks.

Doran, who played briefly with psychobilly punk rockers, The Cramps, died on Oct. 20, 2017 after a long illness. His monograph, The World’s Best Loved Art Treasures, was published by Last Gasp Books and features a foreword by film director James Gunn. He is estimated to have produced less than 200 total re-sculptures, and his work has been ravenously collected by a handful of prominent fans.

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