Cal Lane is an accomplished artist from Halifax Nova Scotia with and MFA from SUNY Purchase. Five Shovels is her 2005 work made from old garden spades detailed via a plasma steel cutter. Cal Lane demonstrates upcycling in fine form creating timeless artwork from discarded metal. With works such as the Car Hood, Wheel Barrow, and IBeam Cal’s creative thinking brings beauty and life to someone else’s trash. The “Carved Lace” or “Beautiful Filth” has been featured in the NY Times, Village Voice, and New York Sun. She strikes a strange balance and melding between masculine hardness and utility with wispy feminine curvature and beauty. Check out more of her work after the jump.
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Category: Home+Decor | Tags: Art, Cal Lane, Shovels
About the Author:
Doug is in perpetual motion and a self-proclaimed adventure junkie, that has had a longtime love affair with the great outdoors.
“I love being a part of the active world. The stuff that blows my hair back is adventure (all shapes and sizes), photography, mountaineering, Muay Thai, and seeing natural beauty in all its forms. The living earth is the framework on which I build my life and free time. My ideal trip would be BASE jumping at Sotano de Las Golandrinas in Mexico (closest I could come to skydiving through the jungle!). I work towards keeping it real, green, and healthy. ”
Doug is the co-founder of LiveOAK, although he says he didn’t know what a blog was until a couple months after he started.
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