SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY

For many years I have been fascinated with things that come out of manufacturing mills, whether they are shoe factories, knitting mills or pretty much anything that was manufactured for the past 150 years. I have many shoe lasts and recently came across these two shuttles that still had thread on them. In very short order I realized just how the shapes, parts and pieces and "presence" these wonderful objects possessed. Eventually, I added the mouth to each with the thread trickling out of each, piling up at foot level. I added the monacle to each to lend dignity and pomposity to each.