Stegoforest - Alex Chiu

A resin project by Jesse Narens released in 2012. This toy is now retired. Toy info: -Cast in resin. -7.5" long. 4" tall. -Articulated head and front left foot. -Battle Damaged Acorn Warrior mini figure is 2.5" long. Imagine a club house (or hut) made of beards, fluorescent paint, driftwood, plastic toys, beat up skateboards, swimming suits, colorful string and bottle caps. That’s Grass Hut! It all started with Bwana Spoons. He made art that inspired us all. He invited us to show art with him, he’s the reason we came together. Scrappers, Le Merde, Martin Ontiveros, and Apak have come to be know as Grass Hut. These artists have helped Grass Hut grow by curating group shows, teaching each other how to make toys, making websites for each other, painting murals, working the shop counter, shipping, answering email, making each other laugh with fart jokes, and by having the kind of fun that informs the work we do. Grass Hut is a gallery/shop/studio located in Portland, but all the artists involved have turned it more into a colorful wildfire of creativity that has spread throughout the tubes of the internet connecting artists from around the world. Beyond the brick and mortar of the Portland location, Grass Hut grows in the work done by it’s extended family: Arbito, Snaggs, Shawn Wolfe, Gargamel, David Horvath, Kiyoshi Nakazawa, John Black and You make this whole thing more important then the people involved. Now it’s about the