Salvage Yard Adventure

We’ve officially started studio work and I have to say that I love being back in an academic studio atmosphere. It is really weird to be in a studio with new people because so much stuff is the same, like crits, desk spaces, music, etc. but it is all totally different because none of the people I was used to being in studio with were there. We spent one day this week searching salvage yards for materials to do exploration studies of materials that we found. We were basically just looking for materials that we thought were cool or interesting. We ended up only having time to go to two places. One is called The Green Project which is almost like the ReBuilding Center in Portland. They had a lot of housing things like doors, windows, bathroom fixtures, siding, etc. The other was the Habitat ReStore. Then we had to explore what our materials could do. I had collected some rusted steel L angles because I liked the color and texture of the rust but I also wanted to explore the nature of being confined to the qualities of the angles as well – length, shape, size. I also picked up some old railings that I planed down and exposed some really beautiful Cyprus wood. I ended up constructing a column like structure that sandwiched the wood between the steel angle. It came out looking a lot more delicate than I had thought it would. These aren’t the best pictures but I will try to upload more later.