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Richard Birkett

Richard Birkett sees obsolete machines as objects with potential for new life.

12/02/2012 | Rating NR

Arts and Culture Shorts

Richard Birkett

Special | 3m 57sVideo has Closed Captions

Richard Birkett sees obsolete machines as objects with potential for new life.

Richard Birkett sees obsolete machines and bits of our past as NOT JUNK, but as objects with the potential for a new life. Birkett dismantles these defunct machines, and incorporates their intricate insides and outsides in his assemblages. Broken typewriters, dinosaur VCR’s, 1950s cameras, and superannuated engineering devices are favorites for rescue and demolition. Making clocks is his form of a

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Richard Birkett

Special | 3m 57sVideo has Closed Captions

Richard Birkett sees obsolete machines and bits of our past as NOT JUNK, but as objects with the potential for a new life. Birkett dismantles these defunct machines, and incorporates their intricate insides and outsides in his assemblages. Broken typewriters, dinosaur VCR’s, 1950s cameras, and superannuated engineering devices are favorites for rescue and demolition. Making clocks is his form of a

12/02/2012 | Rating NR

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