Showing posts with label Catherine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catherine. Show all posts

Sunday, November 3, 2013

An Emergent Property...

























This is just one (incredible) example of what can happen randomly in a multi-acre junk yard. There are many others to be found but this is one my friend Catherine found for me a few months ago. I did a post in 2012 about Smith & Edwards and that is where this found collection of detritus came from.

Catherine pulled on the larger metal piece and all of these rusty nails, washers, bolts, wire nuts, etc. came with it. She somehow managed to get to back to me in one piece and I was so taken by its beauty and the fact that it probably shouldn't even exist that I built a custom enclosure for it.

Anyway, this is a close-up of the found piece itself, carefully ensconced in its new steel and glass carapace. Amazing! Thanks, RG...

And here it is in its custom container with built-in light:




Saturday, December 1, 2012

Self-portrait Shaka

























A recent shot I took of my own reflection in an iron bowl at my favorite scrap yard. I took the shot during an EPIC collecting visit on September 1st with my friend Catherine.

In fact, here we are in another reflection shot on site. This is a large chromed steel drum on some kind of press or finishing machine.


My New Hero




A good friend forwarded this YouTube video to me yesterday. I LOVE this guy and I'm sure he's 100 times the welder I'll ever be. His energy, confidence and passion are PRICELESS! I wanted to share it with "all" of my loyal readers...