December 2006
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The sash is about 6 ft. wide and is made from hanger wire and 1" glass cubes. The cubes I picked up at the Salvation Army outlet store for a $1 for about 50 of these.
The bezels or gem mounts were fabricated from sections of a microwave oven transformer. |
| For want of a better idea, I call this one Lines n Discs. It is about 8" wide and 18" tall. A jeweler's saw was used to cut the discs from the iron laminations from a microwave oven transformer. The wires used to be hangers. The discs are brazed to the wire and then painted with acrylic. |  |
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This key fob is cut from a piece of 12 gauge steel that once was an instrument case door. The little loop at the top was part of a traction link from a lost tire chain I found in the street. The split ring, of course, I had to buy. The fob is about 3" tall and has been highly polished. It appears golden because the light reflected from the metal is polarized and the camera senses it as colored(do you need another physics lecture?). If I weren't so lazy I would put a polarizing filter on the lens...but, at the moment. I don't know it's whereabouts. I suppose one could remove the split ring and attach a chain and hang it lovelier style around the neck... The cut-out design might remind a few of another artisan with the same surname.... |
| What a Reboltin Development this is called. It is made from junk bolts brazed together on a section of steel beam. It is about 10" x 14". A remote, unfrosted bulb was used for illumination for the photograph and took 10 secs exposure time. I had thought about brazing on about 5 or 6 more bended bolts but now I don't think so..... |  |
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Just Dust is 12" x 20" and is made from metal strapping and clothes hanger wire. The colored disks were cut from a part of a microwave oven transformer then painted with enamel. |
| That Time at the Lake is about 7"x14". The woman was cut from a piece of 14 gauge steel and the background is some galvanized duct. .. The woman's name is Mayla....if that matters. |  |
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They Left These Behind is a collection of conchos, brooches & hangle-dangles. The assemblage is about 10" x 14" and is made from scrap steel. The conchos were cut from a junked truck door, the large piece from 14 gauge steel and the necklace was once a tire traction device I picked up in the street after the last big snow.. The brass thing in the center was once a brass planter but was discarded into a dumpster. |