Heavy Metal

“As kids,” Andy recalls, “we were street tough, but on the thin line between ignorant and naive.” He remembers sitting on the curb with friends in coastal New Jersey, “watching city people heading to the beach in big Cadillacs, with all the windows rolled up on a 90-degree day.” They would scoff, “thinking how dumb they must be to drive down in these sweltering hot cars… never once thinking they had air conditioners inside!” He and all of his friends, in addition to their precociousness, shared the vision that one day, they’d all be rich. And that when that time came, the first thing they’d all buy would be a stereo. Made with an old saw blade, Heavy Metal mimics the form of a turntable, one of the earliest and strongest of Andy’s carefree childhood ambitions. From the days when thoughts of riches couldn’t even extend to the sorts of splendor that existed on the other side of middle-classness. The 90-degree halcyon days at the shore, to the tune of Cadillac wheels.

2 ½” tall
15 ½” wide
12” deep
Scrap from laminated veneer lumber joist and an old saw blade

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