Sabel is a filmmaker, artist and photographer who makes sparkleballs. Each is born out of what’s at hand and then soldered together, with enchanting results. There’s Sporeball with tube shotglasses inserted between the 9 oz hard cup layers. Darkleball’s webbed core of CD’s melted in a microwave. Mini FireHazard MD’s layers of little medicine dosage cups. Sparklehive composed of 10 oz Chinets in two pyramids, base to base. And my favorite, Dishwarped, a surreal stunner made of big cups melted in the dishwasher. The entire collection is on a timer, and Sabel says that when they’re lit at once it’s like the Tree of Souls in AVATAR.
His sparklehive looks like it could have been the illustration on a Science Fiction novel. Very cool.
Hey Carl! I had that same reaction looking at all of Sabel’s work. Very Sci-Fi in the best possible way. That’s why I loved Sabel’s reference to Avatar. Love that sparkleballs can be so many things to people.