The Fan and Nails piece was another early piece. It’s unfortunate the photographs I took of it didn’t work out so well, but I find the combination of two photographs describes the piece well enough.

The idea for this piece came from riding the VIA train back and forth from London to Guelph. I would look out the train window and watch the farmers’ fields wave and shift in the wind. I also always think of The Tragically Hip song “Wheat Kings” when I look at this piece.

Like the Rolling Pin and Nails artwork, I first hammered the nails into the wood, and then hammered the nails backwards as if being blown by the wind from the fan. The piece of wood is an old picnic bench seat. This is also the only piece to date where I painted the nails.

Included this piece in my studio show at the Enriched Bread Artists (EBA).

In the above photograph, you’re looking at it from the perspective of the fan, so you can see the nails closest to the fan being pushed over the most.

In the above photo, you can easily see the fan. I guess as the fan is yellow and quite light, the exposure wasn’t quite right for the dark green nails, which here appear black. The fan still works as you can see by the blurred fan blades.