I am currently cataloguing the entire contents of my late grandfather's tool shed. I estimate the project to take around 5 years and will involve me illustrating in excess of 100,000 items.
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
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I am currently cataloguing the entire contents of my late grandfather's tool shed. I estimate the project to take around 5 years and will involve me illustrating in excess of 100,000 items.
My dad put me on to this a while back after he saw some of his work in Pembrokeshire, ive been watching him on instagram since. Its a great project, and fair play to him for doing it!
ReplyDeleteThis makes me feel almost unbearably sad for some reason. G
ReplyDeletewhat, because my dad found it?
ReplyDeleteNah, its class - he does find some little gems now and again!
I'm just hoping he doesn't want me to do it with his hoard of a workshop!
Not your comment, the post. G
ReplyDeleteI suspect, G, that you mean because it's potentially an unhappy experience, do you? It made me feel very sad clearing out my dad's shed and garage last year after he passed away. A lifetime's hoarding of bits and bobs, tools and the like.
ReplyDeleteMP, TC
ReplyDeleteActually because it seems like a mental illness or at least an imbalance. It's not hurting anyone, but it doesn't seem entirely healthy. Spending five years drawing detritus? To use the well-worn truism, that's time you're not getting back. But he'll be the best freehand U-bend drawer in the land, or one of them. So not time wasted.
I try not to weigh in on the way other people spend their time, especially when it's a harmless as this, but it did make me feel chronically melancholic. That's all.
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I guess you could look at it that people have been immersing/dedicating large parts of their lives into "bodies of art" into that for thousands of years. To be that dedicated and to complete a task is a pretty impressive - so many people give up on things far too easily in my book.
ReplyDeleteI don't see it as much different from my addiction to building bikes. I've spent years studying pictures of bikes, thousands of hours sat driving and planning what I want to make, and spend far too long sat alone in a cold damp barn making "cool" parts for my bikes. As an individual part does it have the same merits as all of the parts working together as a body of work?
Maybe I need a coffee...
For what it's worth, I find it really uplifting that someone these days when most of us are running around like headless chickens, can dedicate so much time to something we'd consider "pointless".
ReplyDeleteI see these sort of machine made parts everyday at work but to see them drawn by hand changes them. If they were published as a book I'd definitely get a copy. Quick look around my own workshop can confirm I've not got OCD either!
mmmm speechless..... I would advise your man to stay away from sharp objects particularly when passing near any ear type body parts......I do fear for those who may inherit my shed I hope they just refer to these grand works and don't try to replicate the acts of heroism..
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