Shipyard Love

I’ve fallen in love with the Charleston Shipyard. It is where I have found the best rusty bits and wooden scraps for my collages. I feel a little like a suspicious character wandering among the derelict ships, harvesting their leavings, but I am always carrying my camera and photographing at the same time.

And really, I only pick up things meant for the garbage bin. I am sure if anyone knew, they would merely shake their heads in confusion. The things I find are beautiful and full of potential for me. I have always been a scavenger.

A retired couple I know are building a boat by hand in this shipyard (see above). They finally got it weather proofed and enclosed on the outside and are now working inside. I’ve seen the plans and it will be quite cozy and luxurious when they finish.

I believe they have been working on it for a couple years. They are very diligent. Up at the crack of dawn almost every day and back by 3:00 pm, looking exhausted. This is a more complicated job than I would have imagined.

I have been on a new kick of photographing interesting areas of the hulls of several ships in the shipyard. I no longer rely on the camera on my phone. I treated myself at Christmas to a camera that can take images large enough to print relatively large scale.

I have always been fascinated by the patterns and designs of microscopic things expanded large. I recently printed and gallery wrapped the work from one ship hull:

I love it when I find new colors on different ships. Here are the latest from the shipyard this week:

I have collage plans for the last white image. But then I have so many plans for creating things. Just trying to get as much as I can done before I leave this earth. When my father died suddenly, there were detailed designs for an insulated double-paned window on his drawing board. He was a solar energy pioneer.

Sometimes I think, had he lived, I could have been a window heiress!