#sandblasting

My glass TARDIS tile :)))

I made this using sand blasting and an etching pen to get my design and the details into the glass. My series of tiles (sea life tiles and then I’m also making more doctor who ones) took forever but are so so worth it to me :D

Alas I am not a robit, I am made of flesh and the sandblasting would in fact commit great damage

-Ratchet puts Bumblebee in the Sandblaster-

Yuriy while sandblasting the radioactive scrap metal. (Photographer, Pierpaolo Mittica.)

Inside the zone tons of metals lie abandoned, but over the years all this rusty gold has not gone unnoticed, and more or less illegally was recycled and today continues to be. Tons of metal leave the area each month. Since 2007, the Ukrainian government has legalized the recycling of radioactive metals with the blasting method. The workshop is close to the never finished number 5 and 6 reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a huge warehouse where twelve men clean and recycle radioactive metals. Their work is terribly dangerous, almost a death sentence in slow motion, as it forces the workers to continuously inhale radioactive particles like caesium, strontium and plutonium.

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22 July 2024, 10:25 | Woodlawn Cemetery, Sparta, Monroe County, Wisconsin

Someone was crafting and selling some fine monuments featuring beautiful shape carving around Sparta in the 20th century. This was done with the same sandblasting technology used by monument companies today, yet they don’t make em like they used to, and it’s hard to pin a reason on it. Are we as a society not willing to pay for it? Or do the monument companies see no value in trying to sell it? Are they even willing to pay a craftsperson to do it? Would people be willing to pay extra for it if it was an option? In other words, is there a market for it, and if there is not, why not? Apparently there used to be.

Has our culture devolved into a lack of art appreciation or have the artists stopped producing? And if they have, why? Is it because we don’t teach art appreciation to our children? Is it because we don’t think it has any value in our capitalist society where profit is king? Maybe all the homeless people are artists who have no job opportunities thanks to our lack of valuing what they have been given to give to the world.

The homeless people thing is an exaggeration, of course, but I do believe there are many, many unfulfilled latent artists and craftspersons in the United States. And they don’t even know it. We would all benefit, if only subconsciously, from living in a society that values its artists, because our daily experience in the world would be more beautiful.