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This is my most recent pieced to date, completed in October 2008. The overall theme here is fashion, or mode, with an art deco slide from the 1930's (advertising women's clothes sold at Weise Strasse 22 in Berlin) as a central focus. I was told that this slide was originally used before films at movie theatres.
This slide fits into a slot that has been fashioned at the back of an art deco cigarette case (thus it is interchangable with slides of similar dimension). Attached to the cigaratte case is a woman's powder case at the front and a silver plate at the back. Attached to the front of the woman's powder case is a cigarette lighter.
Just behind this all of this (silver plate, cigarette case, powder case, lighter) sits a polyphon disc. And a light inside of what was a copper space heater illuminates the slide, and gives the warm orange color that surrounds it.
This allows this piece to have 4 "states":
1) Both cases closed.
2) Cigarette case opened.
3) Powder case opened.
4) Cigarette case and powder case opened.
In the photos above, only state 4 is represented.
The copper space heater at the top is attached to a glove making mold, with the following words/markings represented:
F8
Droite
120 V
H&C
Grenoble
Grenoble France has long been a center for glove making in Europe.
"F8" represents the size of the glove.
"Droite" means "right" in French, as it was a mold for making right handed gloves.
120 V gives some indication of when this form was used, as France has long been on a 220 volt standard (I assume this was in the 1930's).
And I assume that "H&C" represents "hand & circumference" as one of 3 methods for specifying hand size for gloves. Why this is represented in English and not French is a mystery.
Finally, the four feet at the bottom are made from porcelin insulators and the tops of salt shakers.
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