I remember I ginned up the courage to respray a price scanner on Day 06. Why a price scanner? It’s a piece I’m working on right now, after an idea that is a question: what comes after retail dies? The Rust Belt has seen industry come and go, and has seen retail usurp its place. It’s unclear to me what would stop retail from suffering the same fate that befell manufacturing, and so I find myself looking for an answer and I come to: experience. After retail, we will primarily sell experience itself. Taking this eventuality for granted, I am working a price scanner into an experiential piece for the gallery space. On Day 06, I set to painting it a highly reflective silver.
I didn’t really have facilities, so used what I could find. One piece of the scanner mount, a ribbed tubing, I fitted onto one end of a pottery sherd and stabbed the other end into the ground. I clamped two clothes hangers to the top of a ladder and made a cradle for the scanner and its cord. One piece was lain on a face-down thin mints box (RIP). For other parts, I used some brown butcher paper to protect them from the ground.
Painting was rough. I was using a dabber to apply the paint at first, and it’s dramatically bad for this job. I used a brush, and it left strokes. I haven’t tried a foam brush yet, but I’m not even going down that road. Some Krylon Looking Glass spray paint is my next route. I’ll just sand down the coat of paint that’s on there now with some 1,000-grit paper and re-apply. Should have the desired effect.
Just trying on different looks.
Skinless building.
This one is definitely set to “stun”.