Hi. I collect broken eye glasses. My collection started three years ago in Portland, OR when I found a pair of wire-rimmed glasses outside my work that had been smashed and flattened in the road. Since then I have amassed about 25 pairs (and countless eyeglass stems, but those don't really count because they're just not as good). At the moment, they're stored in a shoebox at my mom's house, but I've been trying to come up with a different storage solution. My friend's father, a French artist, did a project some years ago where he collected smashed coca-cola cans in the street and wrote the date and location, and later put them in 3D frames. It was beautiful. One that sticks out in my mind is one that he found on Rue de Republique with two straws in it...so precious and full of that sweet 70's we drink coke together holding hands love feeling (you know what I mean). However, I have not been recording dates or locations of my finds, nor do I want to rip off his idea (or partially rip it off, anyway), nor do I feel completely compelled to turn it into an art project (yet, but who knows). I thought at one point that it would be nice to make a big wooden box with type-case like shelves or drawers with a compartment for each pair (I lack a drawing at the moment, because I haven't actually thought about this very much). I have no idea how to do that (or anything related to woodmaking), though. But Jacob might. And he said he'd build me a box, so...would I actually have enough gall to ask him to do that, and would he even if I did? I'll get back to you.
Anyway, I found a great pair today...one of the rare all pieces are still there pairs. Fantastic. That makes my day.
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