via Karen Barbé
She says:
I hate to see this bowl in pieces. It belonged to my great-grandmother and I’ve never been able to fix it. After a while, all types of adhesives I’ve tried end up drying and crackling and the bowl splits up again. It seems they are not made for each other anymore.
With decorative duct-tape, by Heather Hart. Heather works with gold leaf a lot, to reference a kind of alchemy. Looks like she’s transforming herself!
Below: The Numinous Negro, 2010
I love this post by manna from brooklyn and all the components of this repair: duct tape, broom handle, wire splicing…I think Rube Goldberg would have approved.
The possibility of desperate times calls for desperate measures.
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Up.
Muchos duct tape.
And . . . more duct tape.
Made it to the phone line!
Yay, municipal infrastructure!
Filed under: fabric, wood | Tags: glued, lost, replaced, sewn, taped, torn, worn
A year and a half late …. (yikes)
I set up a “Repair Booth” at Heather’s awesome Barter Town project …
Makeshift cardboard button
Pocket hole
George actually broke his pencil and then handed it to me to repair. What?? I think I used glue and then prettied it up with yellow duct tape.
Redid part of Jackie’s seam.
Jiyoon Koo’s improvised tripod. It looks like she used a ladder, tape, and an iPhone.
She was documenting her project, 100 Folding Paintings.
Eric saw this tombstone in Eugene, Oregon at the Pioneer Memorial Cemetery. It’s held together with duct tape!
Then he drew it and sent me the drawing as a postcard : )
Repaired Things 