Our 99-year-old windows are being replaced today. Much as I love the original look, I live with the downside all winter as I sit at my office keyboard with the window view – wearing mittens.
It is hard to type wearing mittens.
Mr TG just came to ask, “Do you want to keep the weights?” He laughed and showed me the rusty hunks of metal. They each weigh a ton. We’ll have 12.
“Weights?” I said. “Wait! I have a cunning plan.” And I showed him these pictures.
These are from the 2014 Garden Bloggers Fling in Portland in the garden of the Kennedy School McMenamins restaurant and inn. And the weights used to create these spiky installations turned up when they replaced the windows. An idea worth filing away and stealing, four years later.
What will I make of mine? You’ll have to drop in later to see. Hopefully, they will be worth the… wait.
What would you do with them?
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Wow, that was a bit of a headache, a worlds colliding moment at the start. I knew I was reading your blog, from Toronto, and yet there was a photo from the KS, just five blocks away from me! Then it all came flooding back. Why you would have that photo, the Fling! Can’t wait to see what you do with your weights. And see you at the Fling…
Looking forward to seeing what you do with those. They have a lot of character. I’d save them too.
99+ years old and beautiful,a definite save!
Looks like the weights dangle from rope? In that case, perhaps a garden mobile type of art sculpture? Or, how about putting them out in a display case and asking for artists’ ( maybe including high schoolers/colleges?) renderings of how they can be used? Great way to start a conversation about conservation, art, and botanical gardens.
We used sash weights when we were trying to train some tree limbs.
I think some type of garden sculpture would be the way to go. Those where impressive in that Portland Garden.