(The artist Ed Ruscha, who has a place near Pioneertown, later donated five more.) For the next 15 years, Purifoy crowded his land with sculptures cobbled from the detritus of desert life: bathtubs, bed frames, PVC pipe, vacuum cleaners, bicycle wheels.
Use proper safety gear when welding the frame and pipes together.
Start building the PVC pipe frame, lining the perimeter with it.
Then, put together the iron pipe frame by threading the pieces together.
Rotate the barrel in the sawhorse frame using the pipe or post as an axle.
Start at the top and the far left of the quarter pipe frame that you have built and screw a 4-foot by 8-foot (1200 by 2400 mm) sheet of 3/8-inch (9 mm) plywood onto each of the 2x4 (50x100 mm) pieces of lumber as you work your way towards the bottom of the pipe.
Close to the windows stood the cluster of bare computers, sitting inside the frame of plumbing pipes and covered with window screens — It.
It bristles with a mordant sense of reality and loss, as well as menacing bits of bacteria and fauna suggesting drain water, while framed in copper pipe with spigot handles.
Asked to make patio furniture out of beach toys, the competitors give us wetsuit throw pillows and a plastic pail turned ice bucket versus a lounge chair made of boogie boards threaded together on a steel-pipe frame.
Before the show, with music thumping, the STREB dancers (in the program, they are called "action engineers") practiced moves in front of us, on a raised gray padded platform that had in its center a steel-pipe frame encasing a sheet of Plexiglas.
