Easter Island Head

[Exolothon]

Here is an Easter Island head I made for Lego Ideas:

(You can see the whole project here https://ideas.lego.com/projects/109859)

Moai: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/109859

It is about 1 foot tall and consists of around 1200 pieces.

Moai: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/109859

[notaromantic]

I was excited to open the topic after seeing your title. Great idea.

But I gotta tell you - it feels incomplete; or that, at some point, it went in a wrong direction. Its missing something - and its missing a something that it needs.

I'm not sure. But I have to tell you, I do this with my own stuff. I mean - I'm not saying this to critique you - but I am looking at your construction as I would my own: And that voice, in my head, that artistic thing we present our objects to, and then hope to appease - it is saying to me that this is not yet there. But I don't know exactly why...

The color? The exposed brick? The nose? I don't know...

This is where, in my own building, I retreat. I stare. And I stare. And I stare some more. Until some new possibility presents itself. And then I deconstruct, and I build again. And I do that until I'm satisfied with what I see is what it should be; and that my form conveys what it should convey = It's idea.

If you feel it is done, then it is. But the Easter Island heads are such iconic images, it is natural to receive, and thus you should expect, more intimate kinds of critiques than you would a different kind of Lego build. People are familiar with them. And they have a 'reverence' about them.

Simplest way to put it: If you hadn't told me what it was - I might not have guessed.

Edited July 25, 2015 by notaromantic

[rollermonkey]

IMHO, it needs to be on a larger section of ground.

Part of the attraction is the sense of mystery from these statues being buried up to their shoulders, and that's lost on such a tiny base.

Maybe if there were 2 or 3 on a single base, it might be improved, but as such, it seems like there's not enough there.

[Captain Dee]

The second pic seems perfectly obvious to me without any title; the first, not so much. I realize the overall building technique is pretty simple, and that dictates a particular style, but I wonder if another more detailed or advanced technique might help. Still, it's obviously a good design when viewed from a good angle, and that importance of presentation may be most of what it needs. Nice work overall even if it isn't perfect.