Chuck Petersheim designs and builds traditional farmhouses and then uses the construction scraps for small outbuildings like this charming shed.
For many years, Mr. Maher, 36, worked for a local construction company, which made it easier for him to harvest building scraps.
Through Dec. 21 Thomas Hirschhorn is the 45-year-old Swiss-born installationist philosopher whose endearingly thorny makeshift kiosks, pavilions, shrines, libraries and other fly-by-night, jury-rigged constructions of scrap wood, cardboard and duct-tape on the streets of Paris and elsewhere have made him one of the most intriguing artists of the moment.
The tons of construction debris (concrete, scrap metal, glass, wallboard) that is unloaded from the trucks thunders to the pavement and kicks up a cloud of dust.
In a hundred days, he has moved to end the practice of social promotion, to scrap construction of a costly half-built high school on a toxic former oilfield and to make a new reading program and new professional training mandatory.
"Many of them work here, they help set up [stalls] at the green market, they work in construction, they sell scrap metal," she said.
Scrap, construction, or card stock paper are the best options.
Ask a nearby construction site for scrap lumber.
