I’ve been short on time, so for today I’m stretching the concept of “Trash Tuesday” to include tag/garage/parking lot/thrift store and rummage sales.
Art Center College of Design occasionally has a student parking lot sale where the kids can unload some of their accumulated creativity to make room for the next semester. These HAND(some) beauties may have ended up in anyone of the above venues (including the Art Center Dumpster) if it weren’t for the discerning eye of Mr V. Eight of them in total for a quarter apiece. They’re one of a kind castings that the seller took off his own hands. He said that he used them in a piece about the crucifixion; this might explain the recurring hole in each hand. Art Center kids don’t have time to shop around or maybe never had to and they tend towards the finest of materials. Does taking advantage of this make us bottom feeders or smart cookies?
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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/
I think with the hole in the middle you could make a really freaky windchime.
You guys must have a lot of (cool) stuff.
Is that bronze?
plaster and acrylic paint
Smart cookies I would say, what I want to know is what kind of cookies are you? And I’m still smarting from the chairs that got away from me outside a thrift store this morning. I say gather ye castoffs while ye may.
Don’t you just hate it when comments fall into a black hole, and it’s never the short ones.
brilliant! what will you do with em?
I wanted to hollar out loud when I saw these cadavers.
But, I could only bark.
great images. what an interesting story and find. who would have guessed you could find and play with a lot of photographs with those hands. you could do quite the series. thanks for your comments on my site.
What a great find!!!
I would have grabbed them all up in a second if I had been there.
I just looked at them again. I’m sure that there are many universal symbols depicted in the gestures, from thumbs-up to sign language, to one of the hands of Shiva.
Maybe they’re gang signs.
Great find. You could be rich if you lived in Holland during the dike-leaking season.
These are terrific. Any more artwork scooped up at this sale?
OH. I like the wind chime idea. They are very cool, aren’t they.
quite strange design
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Now did anyone select to enlarge the rug/hand photo?
AH: Gang signs? As a concept, that one’s got legs
Vanda: Tis true. We are up to our necks/buried alive in cool stuff
PJ: Comment…exactly
Cast off opportunity forfeit (Isn’t that the worst?) the should haves or as is often the case, getting rid of something only to discover a few years down the line you could have used it.
Cookie? Carver caramel chews. Deadly
Vetti: I kind of like Altadena Hiker’s idea
CO: (off topic;) my recent dinning experience at Two-EE’s was ew-EEs. Microscopic cheese burger with zero dressing and a dollup of coleslaw $7.50. A slice of tomato was ex-tra. I sent a letter of complaint.
Julie: I’m big on staging. Thats my bathroom shag rug I have the hands artfully arranged on. The rug matches the color of my bathtub. That ought to be enough to scare you.
Shanna: They’re very detailed (nail lines, wrinkles). He used some kind of casting product out of Hollywood thats a one shot deal.
btw: Mat Gleason (on Face Book)left a unnecessarily mean spirited comment on the death of Nancy Spero. He can be such a jerk
D: And I’m Dutch. Maybe this poor cousin can teach those clog hoppers a thing or too.
Jean: Thats it Jean. Mr V also likes to hit the Art Center book sale.
Margaret: I’m leaning towards the gang signals. Mr V despises wind chimes (although I like those made from shells that you find in China Town)
Deepak: Not too strange I hope
How interesting. I just wanted to keep looking at this shot. I even came back to your blog later to look again.
And– I never knew about the Art Center’s little sale. My son will LOVE it.
Thanks for sharing!
Oh I so want those hands. THere are some amazing hands in Paris at Tuileries Gardens. “The Welcoming Hands” I believe.
You can do something nice with these I’ll bet.
V