#repairwork

[nagoyish]

Home repair is easy if you use the right tape. 🩹🔧

最良のテープさえあれば、家の手入れは簡単だ。☀️📎

[fromthedust]

Connie Lucas Alexander (American, b.1939, working in Ohio)

untitled head of a woman (five views) - Georgia sandstone on Indiana limestone base - 17½"x 16"x 8¾" - 1982

When I first started carving stone back in the early 1970s, Connie Alexander was one of the few sculptors in the Atlanta metro area carving stone. I would see her work in exhibitions now and then, and was always interested in examining her work because though she was a stonecarver, she experimented with mixed media and in carving other materials. Several times I saw her carvings of brick — brick which had been laid up several rows high and several rows deep with mortar. and when it was completely set she carved it into heads or faces. Sometimes she added elements of glass into the design. After several years of seeing her work I finally got to meet her at an exhibition opening where we both had pieces on display.  We talked — briefly — about carving and exchanged addresses (I believe I gave her my business card, but she didn’t have hers with her so she tore off the address from a deposit slip from her checkbook — Connie Alexander). She was living and working about an hour-and-a-half drive north of the city in Canton at the time, so we did not see each other often. I think we met at a couple of other exhibition venues in the 1980s, but eventually we lost touch and I didn’t see her work in shows around town. 

When I became the Gallery Director for the school where I had been teaching part-time for about a dozen years I found this sculpture. The sculpture had been on display in one of the administrative buildings and had been damaged. The nose was broken off (think Sphinx of Giza broken) and the limestone base was cracked. The sculpture was not labeled as to who had done it, though it was signed on the reverse “CL 82″. Being a stonecarver I of course wondered who had carved it, but I did not know of any sculptors with the initials ‘C L’. In 2008 when the administration building was being renovated the sculpture was brought to me in Fine Arts and I placed it in a storage closet to await repairs with several other sculptures (cast bronze and aluminum). Fast forward a dozen years, and the COVID19 pandemic. My task since spring has been to frame and repair artwork in the school’s permanent collection — working at home in my studio. After framing about thirty pieces over the last nine weeks this sculpture was next on the list to repair. I cut a new base and made a new nose for the sculpture. The material for the nose was cut-off the rough, un-carved back side of the sculpture (note the slightly darker tone of new nose). As I finished the repair work I decided to get on the internet and see if I could find a stone carver from Atlanta circa 1982 who had the initials “C L”. Nothing. Then I tried ‘stone sculpture’ and ‘Atlanta’ — nothing but me and a few other sculptors whom I know. After twenty or thirty minutes of various permutations in the search not giving any useful results, I tried ‘Connie Alexander’ and found three entries for her name — one of which listed her full name — Connie Lucas Alexander — and another one also listed two pictures of sculpture of carvings of women’s heads in sandstone on limestone bases which were in the State of Georgia Permanent Art Collection, both of which are very similar to the sculpture pictured above. The third hit (an art auction site) had no pictures, but listed her as living/working currently in Ohio. None of the carved brick sculptures I had known her for showed-up in any of the image searches. Connie obviously signed her works with initials of her maiden name, though in exhibits she listed herself as simply Connie Alexander — which was the name I knew her by. Mystery sculptor solved! Hey Connie — hope you are pleased with the new nose . . . <grin>  

[sei5517]

#横浜マリンタワー #YokohamaMarineTower #改修工事 #repairwork (Yamashita Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdJy8hFPE3v/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[zennyelsie]

My rental properties were not spared from the onslaught of Odette! 🥲 another out of pocket expenses #odetteph #repairwork #typhoonrecoverytime (at GRAND Terrace Subdivision-Grandville) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZErTQmlZVqw6lbULw18uWBr5Ss0Zq-tt_GRE80/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jbeaverton]

I swear to George Lucas I am repairing this ship as much as Han Solo and Chewie did! #lego #starwars #legostarwars #milleniumfalcon #repairwork #legofan (at Lake Buena Vista, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRRDrQnMgNi/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kurukeretv-international]

Onitire street needs antention #peole #peoplewhohike #repair #repairwork #politicstoday #political #politics https://www.instagram.com/p/CPjAJtzH9FY/?utm_medium=tumblr

[semcowa]

Color blend and applied sealer. #repairwork#prestain#basementfloor (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDnIc3OgMiS/?igshid=1a4mv6p4jhel8

[semcowa]

Prestain applied fixed area. Tomorrow will be blending color more closer matching. #semcoseamlesssurfaces #repairwork #prestain (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDkQ0nVAhwK/?igshid=9i1do7ff0hbn