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did not put my hardware shop
together with the intention of its being
an artisan piece. As a miniaturist, my
own specialty is making food and
flowers, so a hardware shop wasn’t
something I’d normally contemplate in
the course of what I do. Rather it was
something deeply personal, a less than
faithful representation from a memory
of a visit to the reconstructed hardware
shop that I saw at the Black Country
Museum in Dudley, England.
This particular real shop is set in the
1930s but I wouldn’t claim that my
version is the same. Truthfully, I
haven’t kept to any precise era. You can most accurately describe my hardware shop as being “old fashioned”, sort
of Victorian, sort of Edwardian probably with later elements thrown in. To me it doesn’t matter. I was aiming to
capture an atmosphere and a feeling of generic age. Were I to burn a paraffin lamp nearby, I would probably even
capture the smell of the place too.
together with the intention of its being
an artisan piece. As a miniaturist, my
own specialty is making food and
flowers, so a hardware shop wasn’t
something I’d normally contemplate in
the course of what I do. Rather it was
something deeply personal, a less than
faithful representation from a memory
of a visit to the reconstructed hardware
shop that I saw at the Black Country
Museum in Dudley, England.
This particular real shop is set in the
1930s but I wouldn’t claim that my
version is the same. Truthfully, I
haven’t kept to any precise era. You can most accurately describe my hardware shop as being “old fashioned”, sort
of Victorian, sort of Edwardian probably with later elements thrown in. To me it doesn’t matter. I was aiming to
capture an atmosphere and a feeling of generic age. Were I to burn a paraffin lamp nearby, I would probably even
capture the smell of the place too.
