Trash Tuesday #47: Where Getting it Cheap is Part of the Esthetic
by Pasadena Adjacent
Lets briefly return to my future business venture discussed in Trash Tuesday #46. I thought it wise to toast to my new herbal enlightenment by bringing back a box of unused Mikasa “set of 8 etched glass all purpose stemware” also left behind by the previous studio tenants. But before I start off in a new business direction, I need to finish up the Westchester project. To that end I’m using my newly acquired fine stemware to separate my mosaic tiles as I put together the sculptural element that will be placedinside this I-Beam.Remember 90 year oldManny the potter?That’s the finished product (fire hose nozzle)…Black Mountain cone ten with iron oxide. More when it’s finished.
Next stop…. Westchester “Research and Development”
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In my neighborhood, trash collection takes place on a Tuesday. The night before is a good time to canvas the neighborhood for castaways. It’s great sport. I use Tuesday on my blog to post my treasures. The phrase “getting it cheap is part of the esthetic’ was coined by my photographer friend D Gordon
http://www.dgorton.com/
Those tiles look to be water colors. I’m intrigued.
Super duper nozzle!
I’m all agog with anticipation. (The green liquid in the top photo looks a little suspect to me.)
I’ll drink to that! That’s a beautiful layout in your photo montage and Patty Loveless has a voice that can really tear you apart.
We spent a tense hour this afternoon buying travertine for our kitchen countertops. That decision having been made, now I have to grapple with designing the splash back. I’ve done some mosaics but I’m not trained in design. Still, I want something unusual. I see lots of little tiles in my immediate future – sorted, beckoning, waiting. Me, pondering something flashy and glassy.
I can’t think of a better “adaptive reuse” for those wine glasses.
I’ll join PJ in drinking to that.
PS The fire hose nozzle is wonderful, cannot wait to see ze tout de tableau.
Tash, you are taking pics, yes???
This is so cool looking already. (And I hope the canvases are behaving themselves. It must be great to have them up on site.)
Looks like a pretty still-life to me…..
This has to be the most stupid question: why couldn’t you use a real firehose nozzle vs a ceramic likeness? Anxiously
(but patiently…no additional pressure) awaiting pictures of the end result.
Getting trash cheap seems kinda expensive to a dogs way of thinking.
Having a great time following the process. Process Art? Process Blogging?
What a wonderful use for fine stemware!
Adjacent, I have to tell you, all these images of industrial interiors and freight elevators is making me misty-eyed for the good old days of living in downtown L.A.
Suburban life just does not compare (at least through the rose-colored glasses of memory).
Thanks for the treat.
I do appreciate that, PA, but I’m sure I’ll do something fairly traditional. I’m just thinking that I would like to use glass tiles instead of stone. I just have to commit to the color.
They were good leaders, a bit full of themselves but in a good way. They motivated people! And you cannot beat Walter’s art, he is such a master of painting. I hear Cam’s growing tomatoes these days. Perhaps he could make a commemorative Ronald Reagan tomato head.
Both Cam and Walter were vanguards of the Downtown L.A. artists scene, thats for sure!
And the Galleria by the Water should stand as a downtown legend!
Remember when they pushed the bathtub off the roof? Remember when Brett Goldstone hung his self-made airplane across the loading dock?
The house isn’t for resale. It’s all about the me. If there are some quirky sites you know about I’m totally stoked.
Very cool.
I just realized, it IS a fire nozzle!
what glaze is that? its fantastic.
Your tesserae are beautiful .