Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2004-04-16 21:51
This reminds me of a "painting" that I once saw in a restaurant. In a long vertical frame was a background field of what I would call "granite" paint, this being a two component spray on finish with "speckles" of a lighter color sprayed on over a darker color. (You can purchase it at art and craft stores, two cans to the package.)
In the middle of the frame, mounted on two similarly painted machine screws, was a cheap standard Boehm clarinet (not a metal horn), also over painted (keys, reed, ligature and all) in the same material. (There was no masking involved, and the base color (I don't recall about the speckles) was covering the entire horn, including what was visible inside the tone hole areas, the pads and so forth.) It stood out from the surface about the same distance as the outer edge of the overall frame, making for a nice shadow effect in the bargain.
This combination offered a very abstract "it's there but it isn't" portrait of a clarinet, and one that obscures the cheap origins of the horn used to boot. One of these days when I find a really trashed horn, I'm going to do the same thing and mount in in a vertical space that we have that begs for something along the same lines.
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The Clarinet BBoard
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