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Just purchased a new, lightweight tripod, which is more convenient for traveling. On this, its inaugural trip, I found some brightly colored stools resting against a bar in the high rise hotel area of Aruba. I assume the stools are tipped to signify that the bar is closed and also to make cleaning easier. Regardless, the stools made for an interesting composition and the bright yellow was hard to pass up.
I felt a need to go back to craft and make a stool. I had the idea that I would use some of the things that I have learnt doing collage and assemblage. Namely that things can have texture and be asymmetrical and not always perfect. I attempted this by using different woods, then different processes for making the legs: one leg turned on a lathe, one carved with axe and chisel, one roughly planed with a scrub plane (ie, not smoothed), one spokeshaved into facets and in two different woods. I also tried to vary the angles of the legs to inject some personality but only partially succeeded in this (they are mostly similar angles). Then I experimented with the tenon ends, trying different wedging techniques. I think the next version could be more asymmetrical. I did all the tenons with adjustable and hollow augers.
Wilton Iowa Candy Kitchen diner. Loved the decor.
Camera Nikon FM
film Kentmere 100
dev Xtol 1+1 9.5min
I've been reading a poetry anthology and noting poems which I might read in the evening – but it's time for coffee & a bun😀
I've been reading poems every day for over a year. They are on my Facebook page and on my Flickr Photostream: Video Poems
The subject was my father's work bench stool that he used while I was growing up. I remember sitting on his lap as a little boy while he would work on things or reload shells. It would later also serve as a telephone seat when I would use our only phone located in the office/ repair shop of our home based LP gas buisness to talk to my friends in the seventies. It now sits in my home as a reminder of those distant events.
an old ikea stool, some vintage wallpaper, a little bit of natty stitching by Miss Ethel and some modge podge saved my antsy creative cogs :)