Local Artist Revives and Repurposes

Feeling too busy with life, smartphones, errands, work, tweets, paying bills or maybe kids? Do you feel that life is stealing valuable time from you and the mental fresh air needed to nurture your soul? That’s not alright, because, beyond our control, everything about this story is also leaving us. We’re talking about all things rusty. Perhaps rust is a neat metaphor about life.
There is a beauty in all this. It’s about the aging process and how we look at it. The Art of Rust store tucked in near 27th Street and East Indian School Road is one of a kind. Its nooks and crannies are filled with the old heavily used earth rich tools. These implements of power made by man to change the world, all returning to the earth in a cadence fittingly slow and virtually imperceptible to the eye.
Leave your cell phone in the car when you visit. Maybe bring a pair of work gloves, or better yet, use your bare hands and strength to lift, touch, and see what creative and useful history men and women have made with the earth’s natural offering of iron. Much of what you see will spark a memory or pose a question of why it exists and what it helped make. There is something in here for you, T-rust me.