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FDR
FDR
Sept. 23, 2020 – 30x38" – One reason why I keep creating scrap art is that it still surprises me – I didn't see FDR until I began moving this metal piece around inside a frame. As soon as I saw that iconic 1939 photo of Roosevelt smiling with his long cigarette holder, it kinda completed itself. Wired, ready to hang. $800.
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My Father David
My Father David
July 13, 2020 – 12.5x19x2.25" – The smashed drawer looked like Dad, so I finished him off with the brayer and white feathers. The meaning of all these things hit me like a 2x4 when I looked at the finished portrait. NFS.
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My Brother Mark
My Brother Mark
July 13, 2020 – 13.25x25.5x5" – My brother thought the piece of wood he found (with the porcelain conductor thingy) looked like him and he let me take it home and complete it. He's an avid photographer, animal/nature lover. NFS.
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Magician
Magician
July 12, 2020 – 13x18" – While working with a Suffolk clean-up crew, a colleague offered me this amazing leather shoe fragment, which had been stuck in a creek bed for a long time. Also used a weird, red tool of some kind and other mysterious stuff. Sold.
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Grateful Rainbow
Grateful Rainbow
July 12, 2020 – 13x18" – The old watercolor set was so much like a rainbow, I decided to add some rain, made of tear-shaped Bay glass that I've collected over the years. Sold.
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TV Indian
TV Indian
Dec. 9, 2019 – 3'x5'9" – I found the vintage portable television frame in a creepy thicket south of Laurel, MD and flattened it out. That's when I saw the fringe on the legs. I picked up the sign fragment in Jacksonville, FL and the busted roof fan immediately reminded me of a chief's headdress. $800.
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Rube Foster
Rube Foster
Aug. 14, 2019 – 34x34" – Assemblage made of ceiling tin, wheel barrow handle, rubber ball, weathered plywood, license plate letters and a 1950s leather baseball glove. This started out as a generic old timer, but he looked like somebody. Sure enough, Rube Foster, who was a great pitcher, manager and entrepreneur of the Negro Leagues, presented himself as a dead ringer. I never know ahead of time how these things work out. Sold.
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Sept. 26, 1901
Sept. 26, 1901
Sept. 17, 2019 – 26x18" – A post-mortem Lincoln inspired by the true account of the last living person to have seen his face. Linwood Lindley was 13 years old on Sept. 26, 1901 when Lincoln's coffin was opened for the last time in Springfield, IL. Made of furniture fragment, driftwood, Civil War era bullet, ceiling tin and other found objects. $450.
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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
June 9, 2019 – 3' x 4.5' – As the 50th anniversary of the moon landing approached, I wanted to pay tribute to that incredible photo of Buzz Aldrin, taken by Neil Armstrong, with a few artistic liberties, of course. Made of an old plastic TV frame, silver flute, military control panel, little blue marble and other found objects. Not for sale.
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Sir Nubbin of Nob
Sir Nubbin of Nob
Oct. 14, 2019 – 18x24" – Freestanding scrap art assemblage made of donated ventriloquist head, scrap wood, small hand saw, doorknob, hinge and other found objects. Inspired by the creepy behavior of a certain British royal. Sold.
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Blue Horizon
Blue Horizon
March, 2021 – 27x31” - This started out as an exploration of those post-WWI prosthetic masks that disfigured vets wore to hide their shocking wounds - but it swerved unexpectedly into a portrait of MMA fighter Ronda Rousy. The Blue Horizon was a boxing venue in Philadelphia that I visited many years ago. The most exciting fight on the card that night was between two women. Sold.
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Cowboy and His Colt
Cowboy and His Colt
Oct. 14, 2019 – 18x24" – A dear friend donated a bunch of old tools and other wonderments from a departed grandfather's work shed, including this very unusual hand saw. Set in a shadowbox frame. Sold.
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Joe Vitti
Joe Vitti
Oct. 2020 – 24x28x8" This was commissioned by my friend, Vitti, with whom I worked at The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson back in the late 70s. He remains one of my dearest friends to this day. We had a lot of fun back then, drinking and dancing with our friends to the music of the time – Elvis Costello, Stones, Beatles, and yeah, The Talking Heads!
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Steer
Steer
Nov. 10, 2019 – This freestanding assemblage is made of a 1936 Arizona license plate, various metal things, wooden tool handles and a typewriter key arm. $200.
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Doughboy with Flamethrower
Doughboy with Flamethrower
Oct. 17, 2019 – 33" tall assemblage made of Singer sewing machine treadle, old caulk gun, hinge, lightbulb cage, bread pan, auto clock, soap dish and other miscellaneous found objects. Inspired by the incredible documentary, "They Shall Not Grow Old." Not for sale.
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Gas Prices Suck
Gas Prices Suck
This was thrown together during my lunch hour one day when I was a designer for the Virginian-Pilot. I was trying to get my scrap art into the paper however I could, and when a story about rising gas prices came across my desk, I remembered this nozzle I'd acquired and raced home to put it together.
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Owlet
Owlet
March, 2019 – A very nice lady commissioned me to create something of a good-luck talisman for her. After a long time considering what to do, I sort of fell in love with this little fellow, suggested by a driftwood section of a log and a mason's hoe. When I asked her if an owlet would be ok, she answered that where she lives, she can hear owls at night outside her window . . . so it was meant to be. Sold.
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