June-September 2008

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Part No. is made from the bottom of a helium tank and rebar. The piece is about 14" wide.

This piece, Zadar City, is about 8" by 18" and is made from various steel pipes and tubes.. Like the piece above, it has a removable wall bracket.

Colours(of my life) is made from scrap metal and wall board. The frame is constructed from scrap pine. The piece is about 26" by 26"

Team Colours, both frame and figures, are made from discarded pine and cardboard. Each panel is about 31" by 13"

The Bear Market 2008 is about 18" by 30" and is a page from the Wall Street Journal that was used as a cover for a workbench as some metal parts were being spray painted. The result is both interesting and metaphoric. The frame is made from scrap pine.

Map is 24" by 36" and is made from hanger wire, fence wire and metal strapping. The piece is based on an illustration that showed population mobility in certain regions of Japan. The frame is salvaged wood as is the backing.

Aquarium is 36" by 17" and is made from discarded drawer sides and scrap wood. The inhabitants could be paramecium-like primitive fish or whatever you can imagine

Has No Name is 11" by 13" by 7." The wood piece and its re-bar support I scounged at the local mulch site. The base is a piece of oak countertop.

Garbo was rendered using another drawing by Al Hirschfeld of Greta Garbo. The piece is 24" by 30" and is made of hanger wire, fence wire and scrap wood.

Musicians is 17" by 25" and is made from scrap metal ducting and discarded metal strap and wire.

Trophy is a commission piece I made for the local Community Birthing Center. It will be the reward to the bakery making the 'best' cake at the fund raising gala scheduled in mid-October. The piece is about 11" by 11". The metal was cut from a wrecked pickup door and the base was countertop scrap

 

 

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