F O U N D

On the way to and from Filter today, walking down Damen, I found these objects. I just decided to post them all together because it was such a good group of finds. On the top of the picture, we see a few potter shards. There are little snowflakes on it, so it's probably from some sort of seasonal item. The colors of all the images are a bit whitewashed because I had to turn up the brightness so you'd get to see any color. But color is what drew my attention to the shards right away. The blue is more brillian than what you see here. The shards made me think of the amazingly wonderful Asian practice of taking antique pottery shards and making new items out of them, by cladding around the shard with another material, like pewter. They make beautiful little boxes out of them. It's so wise to re-use the shards in that way.

On the block of wood (which was not found today - I just used it so the colors of the objects wouldn't get lost) we see two translucent materials. One is red, and I think it's from a busted tail light. The other is roundish and I'm sure comes from a pair of tinted eyeglasses. I like translucent materials. The red of the tail-light shard is really quite brilliant in person - it's too bad I couldn't capture that.

What's cool about the eyeglass lens is that it's not only a color, but it has a definite geometric shape. So much of my collection lacks that kind of form. I know I have a lot of cogs, but often they're rusty or damaged. The lens looks in pretty good condition. The best part of the finds from today is that in my studio, I began a new construction. The process for this starts with amassing the right materials and sort of just stacking it in the same area. I'll probably not touch the pile again for a couple weeks, but will look at the pile often and just feel my reaction to the different objects' proximities to one another. It's a little instinctual. Occasionally I'll rearrange the pile or completely remove a certain object that I know must be ruled out. Then I'll start arranging the objects inside a box in the way I think they should go. It's a long time before I actually affix anything to anything. A lot of observing.

I can tell you that the new project is going to be called Assembly. It will have a strongly futuristic theme and will reference technology and it's intersection with nature.

The last object is a Von Bondies Sticker. I found it outside the Double Door. The Von Bondies had just played there the night before, and my friend Alex from In The Periphery went to see them, so I thought I'd pick up a sticker for him.

Brian posted at 3:05 AM.