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New Works in Progress: The Robot Army

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Well after a long hiatus I’m returning to working on art, jewelry and sculpture.  Last year I spent 6 months cleaning up my Uncle’s house and what a treasure trove of scrap material it proved to be.  One of the nicest finds was a few dusty, filthy boxes of vacuum tubes.  They were / are so old many of the cardboard boxes were deteriorating and crumbling to dust.

So what to do? I’ve had some problems with my vision so I needed to look at a few options – and one day I thought: these vacuum tubes look like little robots.  I was on chat with a friend and suddenly said, “ROBOTS”.  It was literally one of those inspired moments.

On the weekend I had an inspiration on how to photograph them on various backgrounds.  It took ages to figure out the lighting and backdrops, but I am quite pleased.