#found object

[miamaimania]

"It Lives" ◆ Half-buried keypad still waiting for a call

[archiveofaffinities]

Kurt Schwitters, Mixture, 1937

[fromthedust]

Diving For . . .

found object (brass nutcracker), dyed Indiana limestone, brass balls

4"x 5¾"x 7¾"

The old novelty nutcracker was given to me by a friend with a wry sense of humor, who died unexpectedly a few days later. I decided to make a holder for it — the holder which made it into a sculpture that I came to see as a metaphor for his passing.

[calcifiedred]

photo transfer of my grandfather onto a shell

[scrapbuuk]

Wangsa Maju / Oct, 2023.

[saintsalmon]

The "Pilgrim's Coins" Necklace

Chainmail cord, pearl and glass beads, charms, safetypins, coins, and Catholic saint's tokens. Took four days to assemble and a lifetime of collecting random antiques and parking lot jewelry. April 11th, 2024.

Find me on Instagram at saintsalmonart.

[limbics]

Tea Party 2018 - 2021

oil on ceramic and glass

[earthpiecevii]

Oluseye, Ploughing Liberty, 2021, recovered hockey sticks and antique farm tools sourced from the US, Nova Scotia, and Ontario

[funguyphotography]

Happy Earth Day

Garbage in Nature is a found objects project that I started in my last semester of college

I bike the trails of Toronto looking for wild life and over the years I’ve noticed more and more garbage. I’ve spent time with community clean up groups and now keep garbage bags in my camera kit

All of the objects are Found and photographed where they lay. when the photography is done the objects are cleaned up and properly disposed.

If you are interested in seeing the full gallery you can find it Here

[reecypontiff]

An auto body shop in Colorado Springs, CO has these awesome life-sized Transformers made from discarded auto parts in their parking lot. Clearly a lot of skill went into these.

[archiveofaffinities]

Kurt Schwitters, Green and Red, 1947

[fromthedust]

PAPER, SCISSORS, ROCK

slate, cast paper with red bole, found object, limestone - dimensions variable: as pictured 12"x 40"x 4"

The cast paper hand was originally going to be water gilded with 18K gold, hence the twenty-some coats of red bole. But when the red bole applications were finished I found the hand to be sufficient sans gold.

The hand-forged antique shears told such a perfect found object tale just as-is . . . acquired in 1998 at an auction of antique tools.

The little carved legs were left-over cut-offs from a small reclining nude I had carved back in 1992 — A LITTLE NUDE.

I had never thought of CORNUCOPIA as being a book until reading of an upcoming exhibit of BOOK AS ART: PAPER, ROCK, SCISSORS, when I realized that conceptually the whole series I have been working on over the years fits into that framework. The black slate as the 'pages' and the objects highlighted as the content.

[writerrat]

A young necromancer's personal website. (Warning: the linked website contains many GIFs and blinkies.)

It's a bit of common sense to not talk about being a necromancer when being a necromancer is illegal. Both necromancers and the wizard police tend to be very serious about infosec, meaning that most information on necromancy is either in evidence lockers or under floorboards. However, in 2003, the stars aligned, and the perfect conditions for the rare public-facing necromancy resource arose.

It's surprising that the website was ever made, and even more so that it continues to operate. Why this is is twofold - the webmaster, "Bones," appears to have been a teenager at the time, and ergo lacked common sense. The other reason is technology progression, specifically how wizards tend to interact with it. Wizard societies often suffer from something referred to as "rubber band syndrome" or "Meiji syndrome," where they technologically stall for long periods of time before suddenly trying to catch up all at once. In 2003, most wizards still didn't know how to turn a computer on.

More interestingly, the webmaster may have been the infamous necromancer Bonita Romeria. This is backed up by several details - "Bones" was her alias, the webmaster's description of "Honey" fits Bonita's ally, Polyidus Sollevant, and Bonita was unusually computer literate for a highborn wizard.

This website is dated to 2003 - four years before she became a war criminal.

[scrapbuuk]

🔴 red wall, 🔴 red door, 🔴 red stool, 🔵 blue box.

[sleepworker]

a few of my favorite works by assemblage sculptor Ron Pippin (1943-2019)

[saintsalmon]

The "Fish Bone Fortune" Necklace

Found objects, jade and glass beads, charms, and a bone from a chicken wing I ate 9 years ago. Took four and a half hours to assemble and a lifetime of collecting random antiques and parking lot jewelry. April 12th, 2024.

Find me on Instagram at saintsalmonart.