I’m a big fan of bespoke artist Andy Goldsworthy. His sculptures are weird and whimsical and ephemeral and just about the coolest things ever. He’s a man after my own oddness.
His signature gig is to just go out and make something beautiful out of stuff he just finds. No plan, no tools, he just looks around until an idea catches his eye, and then off he goes. Some creations take minutes, some take many months, like his walking wall.
Today’s image was made in the spirit of Goldsworthy, and involved nothing more than a huge pair of channel locks that I found in a parking lot in Fryeburg about 20 years ago, some tissue paper from a box in the kitchen, and some colored water left over from one of last week’s shots. I just soaked the tissue in the water, draped it over the wrench, and then tore a few holes in it with a toothpick I found in my pocket.
Here it the big pic in Flickr (worth looking at, the folds and colors are really cool).
Meta: Pentax K-3, 100mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/14, ISO 100, 1/160th of a second, key light, fill light
