the alba reflector
i made the alba reflector in late 2020/early 2021. materials include some found materials (bike/car reflector, plastic signage, unknown orange plastic bit, a brass-colored washer and a section of an old oak windsor-style chair i found on the street and deconstructed). wood pieces include: longleaf pine (leftover from the build of our dining table), 1/2″ baltic birch plywood (boxjoint cut-offs from tests while building our shoe cabinet/dresser in 2020), maple, a wedge of redwood my dad reclaimed from some cabinets more than 25 years ago, walnut and a little cross-section of a hollow-core door. the dowel supporting the “cube” is a reused oak piece that i had originally used in a shoe holder for our old apartment about 15 years ago. the thick slab base is white cedar reclaimed from a fence we had replaced in our backyard. E6000 adhesive was involved.
approximately 11″ tall. cube is about 4 1/2″ in each dimension
a few comments on noteworthy materials:
a view of the reflector, as well as the plastic signage (bottom triangle) and the oak from the windsor-style chair (top).
the unknown orange plastic bit, as well as the brass-colored washer (i assume it isn’t real brass since it’s rusting).
although the fence posts were 20 years old and rotting in some spots, most were in perfect condition just beneath the surface.