OLD WORLD METTLE
~ perfect toys for imperfect times ~
Amid the cocophonous durge of the city lies gold, but only if you know how to make it….
Old World Mettle is the message in a bottle for a playground of sin.
“The once industrious hands of an old-fangled craftsman are diverting from the self-sabotage of modern distractions to clutch what is to hand to craft anew. Cans, tins, bottles and caps have become the ingredients for a new and final function.
In these late and desperate days, we look to the luster in the gutter, taking tentative trips down sullen lanes to find the fruits of this city defined by its waste. We toil to make in miniature models of mankinds achievements, in hopes of archiving its foreboding ambitions.”
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HISTORY IN THE MAKING
Made as it would have been way back when. By hand, with punches, hammers, presses & dies to crunch city junk into art.
DEFINED BY WASTE
The NOS canisters come directly from the gutters of Bristol, beer cans from the clubs and copper from the boilers out of its council houses.
HUMBLE WORK & MAD WANDERINGS
Once made the art is shipped out by me on a bike or the bin car to markets to sell for exorbitant sums of money.
“A toy is a catalyst for imagination, an exploration of an idea, just as a sketch is drawn before a mural and a model before a technological breakthrough.”