Assemblage No.2 in the charred series.

 

Fiona and I have been having a bit of fun creating small assemblages for the cottage grounds from salvaged used pine fence posts. Fiona has done an initial blog post on her assemblage; and will do more in the future. 

The work we have been doing has included charring-burning the timber of the assemblages as you can see from my opening photo and the burning photos below.

We let the charred timber cure outside before adding adding rust and stone elements.

The following photos are of the finished piece which is about 60-70cm long and 50-55cm high. The larger rusted elements are vintage worn wood plane blades that I purchased at a village market on Orkney.

The small stone on the assemblage is from Armadale fishing cove; and the rusty bit is a rusted handmade nail. Some folk think the piece looks like church steeples; but in fact it was simply a reaction to the shapes of the fence post point offcuts.