Every Sunday I make the rounds of several skips [dumpsters] in the industrial estate & outside charity shops. Sometimes I come home with very little, other times I find some real gems...all raw materials for robots, clocks, mobiles etc.
I take a stepladder to get up to the bigger skips, & have large boxes in the van to hold the goodies. I also take a crowbar, wire-cutters, a hammer, & a wrench - so that I can free/undo the bits I want.
At present it is winter here, down-under, so I am often out there in the cold rain. I take a thermos of hot water with me & afterwards park-up beside the beach & enjoy a large cup of tea & a biscuit - before talking a walk on the beach in search of flotsam & jetsam.
The green skip is outside the scrap-metal dealers, I have also shown its contents last week - it was very full, & I couldn’t delve very deeply. I got some tins (robots & trucks), 2 pair of gardening shears (hands for a figure?), & some barbell weights - which will come in handy when I am glueing collages.
The blue skip is outside a warehouse - it was completely empty!...I had visited it the Weds prior - & scored an old valve radio, a couple of electric hairdryers (will strip the motors out for kinetic sculptures), a scrabble set ( for use in assemblages), & a bag of broken toys.
See my recycled, upcycled and environmental works at
www.martinadlington.webs.com
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