A few things I've put up around campus.
I found this beautiful dove statue at a thrift store and mounted it to a base I made from scrap plywood and salvaged loading-dock palletwood (both treated with linseed oil). The wing broke off while the base was drying, but I reaffixed it with Gorilla Glue. I think the crack makes the final product look more poetic, even if it doesn't mean a damn thing either way.
I typed, cut, and pasted some verses from Genesis to the inside of an old cookie tin and glued the statue inside.
A few people I know walked by looking very confused while I was drilling it into the telephone pole. These days I see it on my walk to Exley every morning.
I really wanted to use my new jigsaw, so I made a climbing foothold out of the same ply- and pallet-wood.
If you're ever outside Westco 4, it really works.
This only took a couple hours and makes me really happy whenever I walk by it. The paint and type are preserving very nicely as well.
This TV has been sitting unplugged in the Westco 2-down hallway since my freshman year, so I went to Goodwill and bought a DVD player and some discs. For a few weeks, there would always be a classic movie playing as people walked to the bathroom.
People were getting a kick out of it, but then some asshole stole the Godfather and it all went downhill.
These figurines were really cute, so I mounted them and glued them up near Olin.
Gone by the next morning.
I'm pretty sure someone punted this one off the board.
I thought this lighthouse was really cute here and it stayed up for a month or so, but someone yanked it down in October.
My goal with these little figurines was to make parts of the campus feel a little bit more alive, more colorful. Other than concert posters and political chalk, campus can feel a little bit visually sterile sometimes. If I had $100 laying around, I'd probably buy 50 little statues at Goodwill and put them up everywhere I went. But until I win a scratch-off, I'm gonna keep making them as I find the figurines.
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