[Dueller]

I don't know if you can visualize this but I don't have any pics. When I opened my first solo office, I rented a space that was once the showroom for Viking Range. It was in an old building with 16' ceilings remodeled to look like a NY loft...track lighting, exposed HVAC duct work, old unpainted brick walls, etc. My reception area looked like an art gallery with a huge tall, monolithic, white painted 16' tall wall. I need some type of dramatic art work but was broke and it wasn't in the budget.

I went to a local metal fabrication place that made various industrial metal products. I asked to look in their scrap/recycle piles for something interesting to create "found" sculpture art. They used a computerized plasma cutter to cut metal sheets for various components. I found a few sheets of relatively thin flat metal that they had cut 18" circles out of that were used to weld in the bottom of some type of tank. Although it was 10' x 6' it was relaticely light since the compuer plotted the cuts for maximum material use. I took it back to my office and mounted ot to the wall willvarious other metal scraps (contrasting aluminum and stainless) behind the circle cutouts.

It was very modern/industrial looking and people thought it was a high priced sculpture. When I left the office a lady came by and offered to buy it from me to use as sculpture for the side of her pool house. I just gave it to her. It had cost me nada. Last I heard my art was still on display some 10 years later.