Sentences with phrase «scraps of lumber»

The main gallery presents deliberately under - produced assemblages by Mr. Fyfe made of patterned fabric, commercial signs, children's kites and scraps of lumber.

And yet there's Abraham Cruzvillegas's wonderfully buoyant «Matière Brute,» a balancing act of two scraps of lumber and red - surfaced sandpaper that updates Calder.

Not exact matches

He had spent weeks so far on his building, but I had put mine together in a few hours one afternoon, and wanted to show off my little pile of scrap lumber to the master carpenter.

I went to my stash of left over 2x4s and 2x6s and managed to build the entire frame out of scrap lumber from the house renovation.

They are life - sized stick figures tacked together from scrap lumber that's painted in various colors — the minimalist essence of fashion.

His early interest in unorthodox materials including barbed wire, newsprint, and scrap lumber were a direct response to the context of postwar Korea and today the artist continues to balance aesthetic concerns and an innovative technique within a historical milieu.

At the time, while I recognized in the installations in which Tonoshiki threw together and brought into dynamic coexistence waste lumber from demolished houses, driftage from the ocean, abandoned televisions and other domestic waste, and scrapped vehicles on the one hand and natural outdoor settings or orderly exhibition rooms in art museums on the other, a common spirit with the cyber-punk-like junk aesthetic that was then reaching its peak (see the work of Seiko Mikami, for example), the only thing I sensed Tonoshiki was stressing — particularly given that he had been influenced by the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys — was probably that the concept of «reversal» could be found in the act of almost violently recycling useless objects that had served their function and were merely waiting to be disposed.

My scrap lumber shelves look kind of like your basement.

When my builder saw the plans for the island he had misgivings about how it would actual fit & function properly so he created a mock - up from scrap lumber of the island and the base cabinets opposite — it was very rough and only took him an hour to make it but gave me a much better feel for how it would all fit.

A few months prior my brother - in - law had given us a bunch of scrap wood from the lumber company he works for.

Since painting your kitchen cabinets is a big job, get a scrap piece of lumber and try your technique out on it first, then when you like what you see — do it on the cabinets.

If you don't have scrap lumber, you can buy a piece of wood and paint it white.