Foam works

Being a lifelong Jim Henson fanatic, it was a dream come true in fall of 2022 to receive the call from Jordon Lindoff offering me the opportunity to join the sculpting department for the reboot of Fraggle Rock Season Two.

It was a life-changing experience getting to learn under such generous and knowledgeable mentors like Jordon, Sam Longbotham, Tanner Hamilton, Hermann Brandt, Melonie Steiben, and Ivan Ostapenko, who were forging a new Sculpture Caucus, and a new path forward for sculptors in Calgary.

Over the six months or so that I worked on the show, I learned the use of hot tools, saws, knives and custom-made axes for shaping foam. I learned to deconstruct spray-foam panels of rock molds, in order to reconstitute them to create vast caverns and rock walls which were entirely their own compositions. Jordon taught me techniques like creating three-dimensional grids to replicate any shape in any scale, and offered Pythagorean-like challenges such as sculpting a sphere from a cube. I was an eager student, and took quickly to each new process my mentors shared with me, eventually being trusted to work independently on my own projects.

When the show wrapped and Tanner offered me a sculpting position on a period drama for Netflix, I was excited to put the skills I’d learned to work. On this yet-to-be-released show, I was given more autonomy with projects which pushed my skills to new levels. A new mentor; sculpture foreman, Charlotte Greenwood helped me hone my skills even further, teaching me about form, shadows and how to sculpt fine details in the finishing stages of coating the rocks we had built.

The trust and generosity of these mentors truly changed my life, and gave me the opportunity to become the artist I had not had the confidence to think possible.

Below are some examples of the projects I contributed to while sculpting in film and television.