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Feb

15
2010

The great Reddit Art Swap: Results

Feelin': Inspired

So the day has finally arrieved! My package from B.C. containing my artswap piece from Michael Parker came right to my door. It’s a family day miracle!

I sent him "Old Friends" and in return he sent me the above titled "Nothing Personal": a beautiful piece of altered art from watch and piano parts. "Nothing Personal" is outstanding. So many interpretations too, as a beast or as a robot, as a fight or as a parts scavenge. He also snuck in a touch of my favorite of your previous works "almost there" with the trailing off of parts. Very subtle. I don’t know how he managed to tell so many different stories all with one work. He has an amazing talent.

I also sent him one of my older works which he bought for a friend’s birthday with the most valuable of currencies: parts. "Nothing Personal" came with a massive metal box filled with wood, metal, and even a speech by Kurt Vonnegut! I’m very excited to get this all into my workroom.

This was a great experience and we’re working on setting up a page on reddit for more people to take part in Art Swaps like this.

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I am an artist for lack of a better word. I hate the term "artist" because it conjures up the vision of a holier-than-thou hipster type who makes up profound meanings for a blue canvas. Post modernism is rarely art. I’m not really an artsy person either. My wife studied art history and I enjoy things like that. I mostly subscribe to the "I may not know art, but I know what I like" philosophy.

I prefer terms like "Tinkerer", "Creator", "Maker" and "Builder". Constructive terms.

I like to make new things out of junk, bits, pieces and various miscellania. I recently decided this compulsion to build complex compilations of simple parts has roots in my childhood obsession with LEGO. My father made me a LEGO table from an old door and steel brackets that sat in our basement. I think I spent more time seated at that table bushing aside an ocean of coloured bricks searching for the specific one I needed than most people spent outside in their childhood.