Dodge Bumper

Arts Hamilton along with the Carnegie Gallery has put a call of submissions. It is a juried show called "Designer Craft" The show will open November the 7th 2008. If I want to make the cut my work has to be in by the 3rd of November.

I started out thinking, that I would make a piece that would be made of recycled material, Mainly some lath that I pulled out of our 100 year old home the last time I did a small reno.

So I started with the premise, that I would make small bed side tables.

I glued up the lath to form the sides of the carcass but after assembling the last side, I realised that the piece would not look like I had envisioned it in my mind’s eye.

Back to the drawing board. Bed side tables would have to wait

I was looking at my material stash which has dwindled quite a bit and thought to myself that I was going about this the wrong way. I was trying to make something out of the material I had on hand,

This is not usually how I work. I usually draw and then decide what material will work best for my idea.

Then all of sudden I remembered a Bird House idea they would utilize a front bumper from a Dodge truck.

I was back in the game. Recycled material use and a more solid idea,

Here is what I have to date.