”I went through the ringer and I look for material that’s been through the ringer too.”

They are hardcore, beautiful, ancient and modern, sexy and pithy, I came across a welded word piece by David Buckingham by chance at an opening in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. It was a famous line from an American movie, etched in large pieces of worn but brightly coloured painted steel. It looked the kind of sign they might have had swinging in the wind for forty years at a gas station in the desert – and that gave the quote a timeless feel. I felt echoes of Richard Chamberlain and Ed Ruscha in this energetic, cool and counter-cultural work.
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