Its done and with time to spare

Bow Tie Bumper Daniel Durocher

With this piece I was interested in the process of making.
I was not interested in preliminary drawings or in controlled outcomes.
I did not exactly know where I was going and chose instead to let the material speak for its self.
In the process I let the unexpected things come from inside the material.
What became apparent in this piece of discarded bumper was a new use.
Maybe on some level it was because the truck that I was a passenger in hit so many birds on our trip from Edmonton to Yellowknife this fall.
Maybe it was the round hole on the section of the bumper that reminded me of a home for a bird.
Once I cut the section of bumper in two, it became apparent what it would be.

It's really a Chevy BowTie

Ok ...I have been a little busy, trying to get a job.... these days that is job one, this piece that I am working on for the juried show has taken up allot of time as well.
I am in the process of painting it and writing an artist statement. I hope to have it assembled tomorrow and will work on a system for hanging it on the wall. I will post new images soon.

Dodge Bumper

Ok.. I spent the better part of the morning, Fitting the top of the Bumper Bird House to the main section...lots of time spent with my pattern makers file, sometime later and I am ready to glue up the center leg section..I used Oak, Birch and Walnut paperback veneer to make up this section...it is good now, and fits the cross section nicely. Here are some pix’s of the glue up for the center section...It took some time to get here but I think that it is worth it...