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Sunday Gordon arranged an expedition to the Cathedral of Junk, mentioned in an earlier entry with the pile comment. A fellow in south Austin has been building it in his backyard for 16 years. He says it's a natural progression from making forts when you are a kid. He has some of it stuck together with concrete, but a lot of it is self-supporting, via what he called the 'Chinese puzzle' method.
I was really impressed by how alive the thing is. It's got flowering vines winding through much of it, and butterflies were seen floating in and around it constantly. At least one really large snake lives in it too, because there was one place where a snakeskin that was probably at least 4 feet long was stretched above an entrance way. It looked like it had been placed there decoratively, but the owner said that it was just where the snake happened to shed, and you could see it disappearing into a narrow tunnel in the junk that made it obvious that it was not put there by human hand.
The owner was very friendly; he seemed willing to leave you alone if that's what you wanted, but happy to answer all questions about his creation. He said he started off by dumpster diving, but anymore he just builds with things people bring him. He just bought his house this past year after renting, so kudos to his former landlord too, for being so agreeable to this magnificent work of art.
Eric's pics
Brö's pics
I was really impressed by how alive the thing is. It's got flowering vines winding through much of it, and butterflies were seen floating in and around it constantly. At least one really large snake lives in it too, because there was one place where a snakeskin that was probably at least 4 feet long was stretched above an entrance way. It looked like it had been placed there decoratively, but the owner said that it was just where the snake happened to shed, and you could see it disappearing into a narrow tunnel in the junk that made it obvious that it was not put there by human hand.
The owner was very friendly; he seemed willing to leave you alone if that's what you wanted, but happy to answer all questions about his creation. He said he started off by dumpster diving, but anymore he just builds with things people bring him. He just bought his house this past year after renting, so kudos to his former landlord too, for being so agreeable to this magnificent work of art.
Eric's pics
Brö's pics
