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A turned and welded sculpture of urban Manitoba maple hardwood and bicycle parts. An odd lump of crotch timber was turned as a bowl, and natural splits in the wood caused large portions of the rim to fall away. The jagged edges that remained were lightly reshaped and smoothed, and the bowl was then hand sanded and finished with beeswax. The bowl sits on a pedestal of bicycle wheel sprocket, rim, and hub. 9.5 inches high, 9.5 inches diameter, and 2 pounds in weight.
A city tree maintenance crew felled a large old tree in my Toronto neighbourhood and allowed me to keep a log. This bowl was rough turned from that wood in 2003 and finished in 2010.
I salvage abandoned, broken bicycles and strip them down for all of the interesting parts. The 18 tooth sprocket was cut loose from its freewheel with an oxy-acetylene torch, then scrubbed with an old toothbrush and alcohol. The legs of the pedestal are sections of a rusty wheel rim welded to their wheel hub.
FOUND ITEM at the HUNKY JESUS CONTEST...it was fun finding a few things at the contest grounds, but it was MORE fun seeing other photographers capturing those LOST ITEMS ! ADDA wanted to tap them on the shoulder and say, "If you want views, go for the BARE CHESTS, if you want FOUND OBJECTS go to ADDA's non-view flickr set!" LOL
Continental Motors once built car engines on this site, but the buildings have been abandoned for many years. Here you see a collection of discarded items on the cracked concrete in front of the boxy buildings with their colorful wall art. For more information on Detroit's impressive industrial runs, see my ebook, A Guide to Post-Industrial Detroit: Unconventional Tours of an Urban Landscape -- More Information.
This tin can angel seems to burst out of the wall. He's little different and funny. Ingredients are a tin can, spring, hinge, doll arms, sewing machine hinge and air-dried clay face.
Love this sardine can cause it still has the key and the tin roll. Inside has marbled paper, a wrist watch, plastic leaves and a real burr. On top is a clay raven.
Assemblage, acrylic paint, barn wood, copper, key, glass bottle, straw flowers, feather, chain, drawer pulls, maple seeds, found objects, ephemera......3/28/10 Yahoo !!! This was just accepted in a juried show in Sequim WA
The world is full of beautiful things to capture with photography.
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Plundering through my stash, I found some watch parts I had forgotten about. I so love the guilloche engraving on this one.
A braze welded sculpture of recycled bicycle parts. The legs and hips are rear derailleur plates, and the tail, head, and jaw of the mount is a brake lever and housing. The teeth are chain pins on a link plate.
The rider's torso is made of two rear derailleur mounting pegs, and a brake caliper forms its shoulders and arms. In its right manipulator is a spring clip from the underside of a saddle, and in its left is a staff of a handlebar stem bolt and expander nut, rear derailleur spring, and a wheel bearing race nut.
On its shoulders is an epaulette of a brake cable guide sleeve and a head of a tube clamp and alignment washer. It wears a jaunty hat of a headset locknut.
Large group Show at Studio x17 in Seattle, tucked between two of my favorite artists Ego and Jeff Taylor
Playing around with the odds and ends on my bench--leftovers from other pieces, things started and not finished--these 2 emerged as finished pieces.
Camera: Konica Hexar AF
Lens: 35mm f/2 Hexar Lens (fixed)
Film: Mitsubishi MX-III 200 color film (expired C41 film)
Developer: Lab processed
Scanned on an Epson 4870, then contrast-enhanced using Photoshop.
A recent NE Minneapolis photo walk between the Mississippi and N 2nd Street, near N 33rd Avenue.