“The procedure requires three very specific objects in order to work correctly. This foam insert holds them snugly in place while I travel. When I arrive, I carefully remove them from the foam and assemble the device. Then I begin my work.”
“I barely escaped the subway platform with my life. My poor screwdriver fell out of my pocket though. RIP Screwdriver.”
“I had to cut a scrap of this mesh to help patch a hole in the wall. I put the hole in the wall, but I’m embarrassed to say how…”
It lived in the window sill of my apartment. On a sunny stretch it would turn reddish, then back to green. Maybe it’s only pretending to be dead. Maybe it comes back to life at night?
“This is a piece of a child’s sled. When it broke, the hook part lived another life as a combination cat toy and back scratcher.”
My nephew and I made a potato gun using off-the-shelf hardware store parts like this. The moment it was finished I realized how dangerous it was and took it away. He cried. Doesn’t the blue part remind you of a hat on a weird green face?
“It’s the end-piece from a mechanical sculpture. It played a critical role as a counter weight, required to generate the necessary swinging motion that gave the sculpture its unique behavior. The piece showed in a few galleries several years ago.”
“The mouse problem at my house suddenly stopped being a problem. I figured it was a neighborhood cat, you know, doing it’s work. I found this in the yard. Is it the skin of some kind of snake? Could it be responsible?”
“I found a box of these on the street. Some of them were pictures of boring stuff like furniture. Others were… a bit weird. I keep it in my desk because if I ever quit, I want to hide some of the weird ones among the old project documentation. I know, it’s pretty mean.”
“In Minneapolis, there’s a store that only sells what they call “experimental stationary”. It’s called “Forget Me Nauts”. I bought this while attending a conference there. I like the idea, but it doesn’t fit in my bag comfortably, so I started tearing pages from it to write Thank You notes and things like that.”
