Why?! A question about my work.

Why even create a piece?
Well this question there is no real main reason, i'd guess it's because I can never be doing "nothing" and with this I have to do things, and the only things I enjoy are usually creative. I love creating stuff, from models to doing web design to making music I love it all, I like the notion of saying "yeah, that was me, I left me mark".
Since I was a kid I'd build tree houses and draw comics. This was my way of letting off steam and dealing with my reality at that time, which was not always good. But this release gave me an opportunity to discover the arts of creation further, I would go one make board games, video games and yes, draw more comics.
So for me creating pieces of art is a release of stress and negative energy and use it to create something positive.

Why amour?
I have always had an obsession with amour since I was a kid. mainly because I'd have to make some to defend my many forts and tree house's.
Armour, up until now i thought of as being cool, but never questioning the reasons as to what is and why i like it. I like body extension and enhancement, from film characters to comic's I have always admired those that had implemented it in there character design and thus making the ordinary extraordinary.
Why it's made the way it is?
I made the piece from bits of spare junk around the house, I figured that the piece should be spontaneous and built from materials ready to me.
the materials have little value in the form they were in so I just decompiled them and transformed components into useful ones, nothing new on that front
What does this piece mean to me?
The piece was made to substitute an urge to create amour since my last tree house, so a good 6-7 years go, so this urge has been growing and growing until I just had to give it a shot. The artist's I referenced had similar plate based designs for their amour and I really wanted to implement them in my work.
The piece, to me, is a representation of what I'd fantasies about as a kid, exploring fantasy landscapes fighting hordes of undead and your average fantasy's that follow.
I would often dream of situations I could face with my friends and in this little world I created a mythology around it for my local area, bending and twisting folk stories until they were orignal and viable reason's for area's and the cultures that I would create.
Well's is a stranger area, it's got a lot of weird and explorable sections that offer interest and desire to manifest little sub plots and fit into the greater story.
an example is the "fog of change" a strange and interesting feature to the location of the town.
The fog rolls in and legend has it, in my world, that the fog is an omen of change, people's behavior change. This event happens in the spring and winter season's and is due to temperature change.
I have a video of the freezing fog that gripped the area a few days back, I will upload them soon.
Little things like this helped create a world in my head based on actually things in my reality but just, twisted into a more interesting factor.
So it's meaning for me, is one of nostalgia and a reminder of some happy days.