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The old
Hooters in Bellevue had a lot of overhead lights.
Each light had hidden inside a quantity of wire, much of it colorful and
joined by equally jolly wirenuts. When it came time to remodel the building,
the ReStore was there to
salvage
the oak flooring, shellacked bartop, stainless sinks, and other restaurant
equipment. Electricians came separately to remove the lights and left behind
scores of two- and three-tentacled twisted together bits of wire from 1"
- 8" each in length. The stuff was both pretty and useless, so I had to save
it, thinking someday I would drill holes in a board and stick the wire in
the holes. Well, that day was today. After
dropping my projector
off for a warrantied repair, I drew dots in a grid on a piece of scrap
wood and then drilled something like 60 holes in it. Starting in the center,
I started inserting wire bits.
As I added more bits around the middle, I brought the capped end of each
up and under the previous pieces in a kind of
tangled weave which gave the
mass some structural integrity. At first the wires resembled a family (pictured
here), then quickly propagated into an
overcrowded planet. Then I drilled
a record spindle-sized hole halfway through the back and mounted the finished
piece on a turntable and
filmed it. The whirling
tangle now called to mind a single human's thought process. |
