my name is Jeff Bell and I'm one of the
artists in area 919 I live in Smithfield
North Carolina it is a sculpture i made
from a piano i took apart a couple years
ago i just took it apart in order to
just break it down to all its different
pieces and then i start to sort of look
at the pieces and manipulate them and
and find a direction that the work will
go i started by cutting down the metal
plate in the back of the piano it
reminded me of the shape of the Nautilus
from the old Disney movie so I cut it
down to sort of mimic that backbone of
that machine and then I started to just
cut the wood and manipulate it to gear
it towards that shape I built a steam
bending box and and several forms to
handle the curves and
Bentham and then attach them when I was
a little kid my dad drugged me around to
different junkyards he restored old
British cars and so a lot of sort of
taking things apart and looking at
things and individual pieces I think
came from that time period for me you
know we were he was looking for
something specific a specific part and
so as a kid I didn't recognize what the
function of that thing was it was just
responding to whatever that shape and
material was