Gear Head

Before my time at ICP recording studios, I worked for the studio owner’s father who ran a machine factory in the space that was to become the studio complex. My job was in building packaging machinery, mainly for the record industry. I did the mechanical and electric design and drafting, managed the production, did the electric wiring myself and supervised installation and after sales support. It was very hard work and I had very little time for much else.

But I still was taking pictures in those days. And as our workshop was filled to the brim with a treasure chest of machine parts, tools and mechanical measuring instruments… it was these things which were constantly surrounding me that started to influence my creativity.
So one day I just sorted out a bunch of mechanical stuff and started arranging the parts on a plate of anti-slip aluminum. And when I was happy that I couldn’t get it looking any more insane, I glued the pieces onto the plate… and took a picture just in case something happened to it…

Which was ultimately a good idea cause I hung it onto daughter Melanie’s door just about the time her teenage hormones started to reach ignition point. The glue was pretty hard core stuff, but there’s no way it was gonna withstand the force at which she slammed her bedroom door repeatedly over a period of about a month. I did try re-glueing, but in the end it all just got to be too much trouble… and so I sadly picked up the pieces from the floor and put them back into the drawers where they lived (and were probably much happier) in the company workshop… and totally forgot about the picture.
Until now....

Canon EOS-100, Canon EF 100mm fixed focal, combined flash and incandescent lamp with blue gel. Probably shot on Fuji Reala 100 ISO color print film... too lazy to look for the neg to confirm :-)