Carnival of Rust & Childhood Dust

Carnivals of Rust and Childhood Dust

Assemblage Piece – Mixed Media Collage (c. 1940s–2020s)

Materials:
 Vintage tin “Reno” roulette-style game board (c. 1950s), rusted padlock, antique skeleton key, broken hacksaw blade, metal chain and washers, industrial latch plate, unidentified medallion, twisted wire from used earbuds (c. 2010s), metal grate vent cover, bent nails, black-and-white feathers, magazine clippings, oxidized metal fragments, and hand-positioned hardware. Approximate diameter: 16".

Poetic Personality:
 This piece spins a story from the rusted edge of memory—like a carnival after closing time, where joy and entropy coexist. The old game board hums beneath layers of time: padlocks without keys, keys without doors, and chains that connect memories more than mechanisms. Bits of the everyday—an earbud wire, a magazine scrap—collide with the detritus of decades. The result is a meditation on chance, corrosion, and the quiet clatter of what we leave behind.

💡 Built on a mid-century game of chance, this wheel reclaims joy and debris alike—inviting the viewer to find meaning in what remains.

Starting Bid: $125

I’ve had the idea of making art out of the Game Board since childhood.

One day while listening to the song “Carnivals of Rust”one day by Poets of the Fall.

I finaly knew what I wanted to create. It was like a lightbulb moment.

  • In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey

    Beck

  • Imagination is more important then knowledge

    Albert Einstein

  • Imagination is the organ of meaning.

    C.S. Lewis

  • "Neither of them wore watches. On them, watches broke or lost themselves or speeded up to keep some lawless schedule of their own so you could almost see the minute hand racing around the dial."

    Anne Tyler, Searching for Caleb (1975)

  • “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

    Maya Angelou

  • “Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.”

    Fred Rogers