What Is, What Was, What Might Never Be

This piece based on the classic rock band Led Zeppelin started when I found this guitar broken on the curbside in front of my house. It is an Ibanez guitar probably made in the mid-1980s. It had a hole on the side and was missing all the “hardware” (endpins, bridge, tuners, etc). I deconstructed it further and started painting. I treated each section of the interior of the guitar as a window into an album cover of Led Zeppelin. The band is sitting a top a stage which features drums, guitars, a keyboard and a microphone. There is a “stairway to heaven” which leads into the hole that was in the guitar when I found it. The outside of the guitar is covered in a faux “snake skin” and the stem is a mosaic of vinyl records.

Recycled Materials Used:

Broken guitar, vinyl records, yarn, styrofoam, wire scraps, album covers, corkboard scrap, plastic tubes, wood scraps, broken guitar string, plastic baggies, key rings, broken jewelry, buttons, keys, electric plugs, 35mm film, plastic fuse boxes, doll hair, mixed paints, feathers, and screws.

What wasn’t recycled:

3 mini lights, modeling foam, glue, string to hang