agelio batle's graphite drawing objects

the golden fish research department recently came across some very unusual drawing / writing objects - yes drawing / writing objects - that are being created by artist agelio batle. batle began his relationship with graphite when he decided as a project and a challenge that for each day of the year 1999, he would cast his own hand in pencil lead graphite. the result can be seen and admired here: “drawing hand number one":
made from graphite, a substance that is chemically related to diamond through both being allotropes of carbon. bet you didn’t know that! (to be honest, i didn’t either ‘till the research department told me).

the works range from his whimsical gamepieces . . .
to the beautiful spindle shell number three . . .
but my favourite pieces are his noguchi objects that just cry out to be held and drawn with . . .
happily the formulation of the graphite is such that while the entire object can be used as a drawing tool, the material does not smudge off onto you! it's a strange thought that you could buy a work of art, and use it to create another work of art.

here’s an artist profile that opens out agelio’s thinking and work . . .
to see and learn more about these wonderful and functional pieces of art then visit agelio’s workshop.