Mary Nowakowski

FOUND ITEMS on the STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO

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Acrylic on welcome mat

"The Discarded"

Sterling Silver

Casting Button

I collect old diner things

So Won Lee, found object installation, 2011.

New rusty treasure coordinates perfectly with blue washers and matches mulch nicely as well.

Water cap in the lawn.

"Junk Drawer"

Grey Nylon

Blue Rubber Band

FOUND ITEMS on the STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO

Sculptural necklace with cast bronze ladder and safety cage, brass dial, fabricated bronze, copper chain, and brass micro-hardware bolts.

this cabinet was my pay for helping with a Tag sale a few years ago. There has to be 20 layers of paint on it.

This is a metal collage that I built as a wedding gift for my friends Rayane and Max.

violin, brush, drawer pull, lamp shade

Found in the parking lot of a local convenience store. Though I share a name with the addressee, I don't know either person from this correspondence.

Attracting Fairies @ The Little Red Hen

why'd someone throw us away? we were painted. we are neat.

Whatzit? Anyone know?

2"x4" wood studs

She seemed kinda lonesome, so I put her on a mailbox.

This was in a rich suburban cul-de-sac with lots of tall trees. An SUV came around the corner as I was staring at my monkey. I don't think they understood.

Sigh.

Made from bits and pieces in the Car Spares Yard Shaftesbury Dorset. In the centre bits from a Saxo , on the right bits of a Citroen Deux Chevaux. by Anthony Wilson www.sculpturemad.com

Recent found object for use with assemblages or picture frames or books.

Found: Torn up pump and empy bottle of Kentucky Whiskey.

found end table and foam scraps from work

rusty chain and lock on cement

FOUND ITEM

on the streets of SAN FRANCISCO

This dog and pup squeezed out of the cavity between the newly installed uPVC window frame and the wall.

They were born entirely by happy chance, and I added the map pin eyes.

Over the intervening 20 years or so they turned from Yellow Labrador to Red Setter, with the help of several hundred British Pounds worth of nicotine.

Makes me glad once again that I stopped the weed in 2000!

Something else from my chuck-out for the decorators, but these were for the bin not the gallery.

Now..if my name was Damien Hirst......

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One of my all time personal favorites :-) This was made after I got out of the hospital last year after the heart attack. I know that everyone there meant to be kind, but it got to be wearisome to be told over and over how 'young' and 'great' I looked.... when this was how I was feeling inside lol!

It also occurs to me that this represents how I feel all the time! It can be difficult even to convince my doctors to take me seriously since to them I 'don't look sick'! :-)

Just working on better shots/different angles etc...

In 2017, I followed an internet class with the American artist, Carla Sonheim. We had to follow a prompt once a day. I did not finished the year since I was takin care of my mom and my sis who were both very sick and finally died 5 weeks apart. But I manage to go up to the 256th day. Here are some of my fave prompts.

Day 136: Create a still life or an abstract with found objects.

mixed media assemblage

why'd someone throw us away? we were painted. we are neat.