A dozen or so workbenches occupy a roughly 2,000-square-foot space in downtown Richmond, Virginia. They’re covered with neatly arranged tools and safety gear: jigsaws, scalpels, grinders, palm sanders, airbrushes, gloves, and goggles. But it’s not your average fabrication shop or artists’ studio. It’s more like slipping backstage at a sadistically hilarious Disney production. Walls are hung with custom-fabricated items such as bison-horned demon masks, spike-studded battle armor, wearable satyr hooves and haunches, cybernetic steel mandibles, prosthetic buzzsaws, and more. Here are molds for making human bodies from latex. There is…
