Pterodactyls Buzz St. Louis Community College
Nicki Conaway next to her creation
Studying dinosaur fossils can be hard work, but imagine building a dinosaur from scratch. That was the task given to St. Louis Community College art student Nicki Conaway, who created a 12-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus skeleton (nicknamed “Lola”) for a production of the play Pterodactyls at her school. The sculpture was mostly constructed of Styrofoam.
Don’t be deceived by the title of the play, though. You won’t see people in pterosaur costumes running about the stage. Instead Pterodactyls (which ran last month) was a black comedy about a dysfunctional family. The Tyrannosaurus comes in when one of the characters finds its bones in the backyard and is more interested in putting them together than in paying attention to the rest of the family. I’m sure it was an interesting performance, but I would have loved to have seen an all-pterosaur cast.
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Cool sculpture, but: lousy Photoshop work on that image. Nicki’s body just fades away, and she has no legs!
Comment by Callan Bentley — May 19, 2009 @ 11:49 am
yeah, it was a really terrible picture. This is Nicki, this is a really bad photoshop picture I agree, she used a picture of me standing at the bottom of the steps, so I am actually smaller compaired to the skull. It’s amazing that this story has traveled so long from the small city of Kirkwood, MO. Thanks for all the support, and thanks to Brian Switek for the post!
Comment by Nicki Conaway — June 25, 2009 @ 3:57 pm