Cryptid Mountain Live

DAVID LAMORTE ON CRYPTID MOUNTAIN
Cryptid Mountain is a mixed media sculpture and diorama. It includes miniature NJ landmarks, and is mostly made of spray foam, cardboard, paint, paper, and plastic figurines. It is done in Dungeons and Dragons scale because I wanted to be able to make terrain for my oldest child. There are small plastic figures of the Jersey Devil, Bigfoot, and the Jersey City Muffler-man that are also characters in a YouTube show.

The goal was to use humor and cryptozoology to poke fun at and analyze the absurdity of the real world. At it’s core it is my version of Dante’s Inferno where the Jersey Devil is Dante and Bigfoot plays his Virgil. Just like Dante was obsessed with Florence, I’m obsessed with New Jersey.